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Tynisha vs Tynlee

American parents have registered 1,673 Tynishas since 1880, against 455 Tynlees. But in 2025 it was Tynlee that was commoner, 9 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tynisha Tynlee

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 54 years in which either name was published, Tynisha for 38 years and Tynlee for 16 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tynisha Tynlee
Total US births 1,673455
Most in one year 8249
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 1,600450
Median age today 3710
Peak year 19772016
Best rank 1,370th girls3,280th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked10,107th
First recorded 19722010
Girls / boys 1,673 / 0455 / 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 Tynlees are over 10. That is 27 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: Tynisha and Tynlee.