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Tyneshia vs Tynisha

American parents have registered 1,673 Tynishas since 1880, against 574 Tyneshias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyneshia 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

Tynisha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2013. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Tyneshia had 9 and Tynisha had 10.

Side by side

  Tyneshia Tynisha
Total US births 5741,673
Most in one year 3782
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5601,600
Median age today 3537
Peak year 19911977
Best rank 3,036th girls1,370th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19721972
Girls / boys 574 / 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 Tynishas alive today are over 37; half the Tyneshias are over 35. That is 2 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: Tyneshia and Tynisha.