Tenneal
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tenneal has been given to 8 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 8 recorded.
Babies named Tenneal, 1976
1 in 379,000
Tenneal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Tenneal?
Tenneal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1976, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1976
- 1 in 379,000
- 8 of 3,034,007 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 183,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1976
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 262,878 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tenneal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1976 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 262,878 children born in 1976 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tenneal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tenneals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tenneal was born before 1976 — so the typical Tenneal is around 49 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 8
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (8).
Is Tenneal 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 (8)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Tenneal
Tenneal is not the most common spelling — Jennell is, with 69.6% against Tenneal's 0.43%.
Tenneal around the world
Where Tenneal 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.
- South Australia1976–1997#681in 1997
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Tenneal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tenneal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tenneal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.