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Tyna vs Tynisha

American parents have registered 1,673 Tynishas since 1880, against 628 Tynas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyna against Tynisha, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyna Tynisha

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 60 years in which either name was published, Tynisha for 39 years and Tyna for 21 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tyna Tynisha
Total US births 6281,673
Most in one year 2882
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5701,600
Median age today 5437
Peak year 19671977
Best rank 2,272nd girls1,370th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19501972
Girls / boys 628 / 01,673 / 0

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 Tynas alive today are over 54; half the Tynishas are over 37. That is 17 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: Tyna and Tynisha.