girls:
506 births since 1976
#5210 (9th percentile)
boys:
792 births since 1975
#3795 (17th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1975
#6444 (17th percentile)
The name Tien is the #6,444 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,298 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 16.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,795 (17.2% percentile) for all time with 792 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,210 (8.8% percentile) for all time with 506 births since 1976.
Tien first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 1976 for girls).
The name Tien has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (61.0% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Tien were boys.
For boys, Tien reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #745) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 14 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Tien ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 30.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tien reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #837) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tien".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Tien. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.9% confident that Tien is pronounced as TEE-ehn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is teen, at 38.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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