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Tineke vs Tinsley

American parents have registered 4,747 Tinsleys since 1880, against 23 Tinekes. Tinsley is still ahead, with 213 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tineke 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 53 years in which either name was published, Tinsley for 51 years and Tineke for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Tineke Tinsley
Total US births 234,747
Most in one year 18388
Babies in 2025 under 5213
Estimated living today 204,700
Median age today 588
Peak year 19672020
Best rank 2,963rd girls718th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,109th
First recorded 19671919
Girls / boys 23 / 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 Tinekes alive today are over 58; half the Tinsleys are over 8. That is 50 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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