Tenille
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tenille has been given to 998 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1976, with 124 recorded.
Babies named Tenille, 2024
1 in 418,000
Tenille over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Tenille?
Tenille had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 418,000
- 8 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 203,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 289,633 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tenille sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tenille. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tenilles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tenille was born before 1981 — so the typical Tenille is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 40.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 8.2%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 998
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (399).
Is Tenille 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1976 (124)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 44.0% average annual change
Spellings of Tenille
Tenille is not the most common spelling — Jenelle is, with 42.8% against Tenille's 5.9%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Tenille is used
Across 1910–2025, Tenille was most concentrated in Idaho — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 383,187 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Idaho1 in 100,000
- 2Illinois1 in 100,000
- 3New Mexico1 in 100,000
- 4Utah1 in 100,000
- 5California1 in —
- 6Indiana1 in —
- 7Maryland1 in —
- 8Michigan1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tenille has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tenille around the world
Where Tenille ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada1991–2022#2,896in 2022
- South Australia1975–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Tenille by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tenille
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tenille
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.