girls:
52 births since 1900
#5664 (1st percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1922
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
57 births since 1900
#7682 (1st percentile)
The name Tellie is the #7,682 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 57 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 0.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,664 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 52 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1922.
Tellie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 1922 for boys). Birth data for Tellie is available in 9 out of the 77 years between 1900 and 1976 (8 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tellie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 91.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tellie reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #507) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 20 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1976.
For boys, Tellie reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #546) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1922.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tellie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Tellie is pronounced as TEH-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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