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Tennile

Tennile reached its high-water mark in 1976 at number 2,486, and has been recorded 132 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1985. About 130 Tenniles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 47.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Tennile

By the numbers

Total US births
132
Estimated living today
130
Median age today
47
Peak year
1976
Best rank
2,486th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1976

How old the living Tenniles are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 132 babies given the name since 1976, about 130 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1978 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 Tennile is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1976

The most popular girls’ names the year Tennile peaked:

All the names of 1976

Related names

Tennile 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.