girls:
2.1k births since 1881
#3755 (34th percentile)
boys:
161 births since 1915
#4425 (3rd percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1881
#5547 (28th percentile)
The name Tiny is the #5,547 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,248 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 28.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,755 (34.3% percentile) for all time with 2,087 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #4,425 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 161 births since 1915.
Tiny first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 1915 for boys). Birth data for Tiny is available in 102 out of the 113 years between 1881 and 1993 (102 years for girls and 25 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 Tiny has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tiny reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 8.7% percentile (ranked #555) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 94 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
For boys, Tiny reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #496) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1960.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tiny".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tiny. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.0% confident that Tiny is pronounced as TAI-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TIH-nee, at 10.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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