girls:
16 births since 2000
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
433 births since 1975
#4153 (9th percentile)
overall:
449 births since 1975
#7290 (6th percentile)
The name Tion is the #7,290 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 449 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 5.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,153 (9.4% percentile) for all time with 433 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 2000.
Tion first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 2000 for girls). Birth data for Tion is available in 45 out of the 47 years between 1975 and 2021 (45 years for boys and 2 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 Tion has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tion reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #860) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Tion reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #891) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tion".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Tion. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.2% confident that Tion is pronounced as TAI-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TEE-uhn, at 27.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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