girls:
2.2k births since 1975
#3689 (35th percentile)
boys:
15 births since 1976
#4571 (0th percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1975
#5605 (28th percentile)
The name Tennille is the #5,605 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,187 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 27.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,689 (35.4% percentile) for all time with 2,172 births since 1975. For boys, it ranks #4,571 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1976.
Tennille first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for girls and 1976 for boys). Birth data for Tennille is available in 32 out of the 38 years between 1975 and 2012 (32 years for girls and 2 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 Tennille has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tennille reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 62.3% percentile (ranked #287) with 489 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 489 births per million (ranked 62.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
For boys, Tennille reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #653) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1977.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tennille".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Tennille. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 29.7% confident that Tennille is pronounced as teh-NIHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is teh-NEEL, at 21.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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