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Tin

Boys' name

Short form of Martin

Tin has been given to 436 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1993, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Tin, 2020

1 in 668,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tin: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Martin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tin means

Tin is a short form of Martin.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tin is used in Croatian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtîːn/ for Tin.

Origin, language, and formation

Tin is used in Breton, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish and Walloon.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Martin, Kaourantin and Kaourintin.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Tin is pronounced /tîːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 436 boys were recorded with the name Tin between 1979 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1993; its best national rank was #3,268 in 1982.

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 Tin?

Tin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tin 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tin was born before 1998 — so the typical Tin is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
32.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
436
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (141).

Is Tin 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1993 (18)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,268
1982

Where Tin is used

Across 1910–2025, Tin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 295,470 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Tin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tin around the world

Where Tin 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.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1981–1981
    #2,706
    in 1981
  • Canada
    2003–2004
    #2,269
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1981–2007
    #437
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tin 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
—
Best rank ever
#3,268
1982
Peak year
1993
18 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
436
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tin

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

TinoTinaAstinOstinArtinTinyMatinYostinJaxtinEastinDaxtinJostinKoltinJatinCastinNitinBraxtinTrustinKastinAshtinEstinBertinAltinColtin

Sibling names for Tin

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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