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Tenzing

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Alternate transcription of Tenzin

Tenzing has been given to 80 babies in the U.S. since 1998. 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 1998, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% boys, 26% girls all-time.

Babies named Tenzing, 2015

1 in 740,000

Tenzing over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Tenzing over time

In 2017, Tenzing went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19982017

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Tenzing: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Tenzin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tenzing means

Tenzing is a alternate transcription of Tenzin.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tenzing is used in Tibetan.

Another recorded pronunciation is /tɛ̃˥˥.t͡sĩ˥˥/ for Tenzing.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tenzing → Tenzin. The family’s meaning is “upholder of teachings”, recorded in the naming reference for Tenzin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tenzin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 59 boys were recorded with the name Tenzing between 1998 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1998; its best national rank was #6,247 in 1998.

In the United States, 21 girls were recorded with the name Tenzing between 2002 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2002; its best national rank was #15,241 in 2002.

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.

How common is Tenzing?

Tenzing had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tenzing 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tenzing. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tenzings were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tenzing was born before 2008 — so the typical Tenzing is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
59
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Choose a decade

2000s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Tenzing 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 1998 (10)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,247
1998

Spellings of Tenzing

Tenzing is not the most common spelling — Tenzin is, with 96.6% against Tenzing's 3.4%.

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 Tenzing is used

Across 1910–2025, Tenzing was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Tenzing has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tenzing 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
#6,247
1998
Peak year
1998
10 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
59
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#15,241
2002
Peak year
2002
6 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tenzing

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

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Sibling names for Tenzing

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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