girls:
382 births since 2003
#5334 (7th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1913
#3468 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1913
#6228 (20th percentile)
The name Tennyson is the #6,228 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,517 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 19.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,468 (24.3% percentile) for all time with 1,135 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,334 (6.7% percentile) for all time with 382 births since 2003.
Tennyson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 2003 for girls). Birth data for Tennyson is available in 78 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (78 years for boys and 21 years for girls). 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 Tennyson has been given predominantly to boys, with 74.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 60.6% of babies named Tennyson were boys.
For boys, Tennyson reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #861) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 23 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Tennyson ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 46.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tennyson reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #911) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 23 births per million (ranked 4.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tennyson ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 32.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tennyson".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Tennyson. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.3% confident that Tennyson is pronounced as TEH-nih-suhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TEH-nee-suhn, at 38.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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