Tenley
Tenley reached its high-water mark in 2011 at number 424, and has been recorded 6,859 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,458th. About 6,800 Tenleys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tenley boys named Tenley
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,859
- Estimated living today
- 6,800
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2011
- Best rank
- 424th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,458th
- First recorded
- 1953
- Girls / boys
- 6,854 / 5
How old the living Tenleys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,859 babies given the name since 1953, about 6,800 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 5,900 of them are children and 90 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From Tineley in Northumberland or Teenley in West Yorkshire.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Tenleys
- Tenley Albright (born 1935)American figure skater and surgeon
People named Tenley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tenley is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tenley is most concentrated in South Dakota (5.3×), North Dakota (4.7×), Utah (3.5×), Minnesota (3.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2011
The most popular girls’ names the year Tenley peaked:
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Tenley against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.