Tine

Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Tine has been given to 109 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 1967, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Tine, 1978

1 in 635,000

Tine over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tine: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tine means

Tine has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Tine

A separate documented entry treats Tine as a short form of Kristine. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Tine as a diminutive of Martin. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Tine is used in Danish, Norwegian and Slovene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Katrine, Kristine and Martine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovene, Tine is pronounced /tìːnɛ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 109 girls were recorded with the name Tine between 1961 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1967; its best national rank was #4,033 in 1967.

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 Tine?

Tine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1978: 1 in 635,000; 5 of 3,173,639 births
Among girls only: 1 in 306,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1978: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 439,961 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Tine sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1978 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 439,961 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tine was born before 1970 — so the typical Tine is around 55 today.

Median birth year: 1970; About 55 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 58.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 109; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 58.7% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Tine 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 1967 (12)
Years since peak: 58; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 39.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,033; 1967

Spellings of Tine

Tine is not the most common spelling — Diane is, with 20.3% against Tine's <0.01%.

Diane20.3%518,651
Jane14.9%379,876
Anne12.7%325,128
Tina11.4%292,146
June8.0%205,556
Gina6.0%153,057
Nina5.2%133,788
Toni3.9%100,198

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.

Tine around the world

Where Tine 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.

Norway
1880–2016
#502
in 2016

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Tine by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,033; 1967
Peak year: 1967; 12 that year
First recorded: 1961
Last recorded: 1978
All-time count: 109
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Tine

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

Ting Tinya Tinie Tinea Tinzley Tinaya Serine Faline Tinita Shine Tinlee Tinna Tiney Tinia Eline Tincy Narine Namine Yvaine Emine Erine Soline Arine Tiniya

Sibling names for Tine

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

For a sister

Cami Missy Evette Rona Nichelle Aretha Brigette Dawna

For a brother

Deron Kraig Kelley Darron Daron Stacey Kip Jacques

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