girls:
3.5k births since 2002
#2911 (49th percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 2002
#4611 (40th percentile)
The name Tinley is the #4,611 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,519 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 40.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,911 (49.1% percentile) for all time with 3,519 births since 2002.
Tinley first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (first recorded for girls in 2002).
For girls, Tinley reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 35.6% percentile (ranked #617) with 185 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 185 births per million (ranked 35.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tinley ranks #861 for girls (9.1% percentile) with 52 births per million, which is 28.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tinley".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Tinley is pronounced as TIHN-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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