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Tecumseh

Boys' name

Possibly passing across

Tecumseh has been given to 64 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1995, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Tecumseh, 2013

1 in 456,000

Tecumseh over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tecumseh: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly passing across

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tecumseh means

Tecumseh may mean “passing across”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tecumseh is used in Shawnee.

Another recorded pronunciation is /tə.ˈkʌm.sə/ for Tecumseh.

Origin, language, and formation

Tecumseh is used in English.

Tecumseh comes through sjw Tekámthi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 64 boys were recorded with the name Tecumseh between 1916 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1995; its best national rank was #3,837 in 1916.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tecumseh?

Tecumseh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 456,000
8 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only
1 in 236,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
315,898 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tecumseh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 315,898 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tecumseh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tecumsehs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tecumseh was born before 1997 — so the typical Tecumseh is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
57.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
58
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Choose a decade

1990s — 57.8% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Tecumseh rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1995 (8)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,837
1916

Tecumseh by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,837
1916
Peak year
1995
8 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
64
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tecumseh

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ManassehTecuaniJahsehJosehTecoJaseh

Sibling names for Tecumseh

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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