girls:
2.8k births since 1880
#3291 (42nd percentile)
boys:
19 births since 1914
#4567 (0th percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1880
#5107 (34th percentile)
The name Tennie is the #5,107 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,796 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 34.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,291 (42.4% percentile) for all time with 2,777 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,567 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 1914.
Tennie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1914 for boys). Birth data for Tennie is available in 102 out of the 109 years between 1880 and 1988 (102 years for girls and 3 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 Tennie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tennie reached its peak popularity in 1884, achieving the 16.5% percentile (ranked #199) with 320 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 320 births per million (ranked 16.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
For boys, Tennie reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #454) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 10 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1923.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tennie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Tennie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Tennie is pronounced as TEH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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