girls:
18 births since 2008
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2009
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
23 births since 2008
#7716 (0th percentile)
The name Tinashe is the #7,716 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 23 recorded births since 2008. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 2008. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2009.
Tinashe first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2008 (2008 for girls and 2009 for boys). Birth data for Tinashe is available in 4 out of the 10 years between 2008 and 2017 (3 years for girls and 1 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 Tinashe has been given predominantly to girls, with 78.3% of all recorded births being female. In 2017, 100.0% of babies named Tinashe were girls.
For girls, Tinashe reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #957) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
For boys, Tinashe reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #901) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tinashe".
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Our model has identified 16 different pronunciations for the name Tinashe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 22.9% confident that Tinashe is pronounced as tih-NAH-sheh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tee-NUH-shee, at 14.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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