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Tinamarie vs Tinsley

American parents have registered 4,747 Tinsleys since 1880, against 1,159 Tinamaries. Tinsley is still ahead, with 213 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tinamarie against Tinsley, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tinamarie Tinsley

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 81 years in which either name was published, Tinamarie for 43 years and Tinsley for 38 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Tinamarie Tinsley
Total US births 1,1594,747
Most in one year 60388
Babies in 2025 under 5213
Estimated living today 1,1004,700
Median age today 518
Peak year 19682020
Best rank 1,459th girls718th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,109th
First recorded 19551919
Girls / boys 1,159 / 04,659 / 88

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tinamaries alive today are over 51; half the Tinsleys are over 8. That is 43 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tinamarie and Tinsley.