girls:
8.2k births since 1880
#1799 (69th percentile)
overall:
8.2k births since 1880
#2987 (61st percentile)
The name Tena is the #2,987 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,180 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 61.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,799 (68.5% percentile) for all time with 8,180 births since 1880.
Tena has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Tena is available in 140 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Tena reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 38.7% percentile (ranked #474) with 170 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 267 births per million (ranked 12.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Tena ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 2.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tena".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.0% confident that Tena is pronounced as TEH-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TEE-nuh, at 48.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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