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Tinley

#2,748 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Tenley

Tinley has been given to 3,663 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #2,748 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 358 recorded.

Babies named Tinley, 2025

1 in 52,600

Tinley over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tinley: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tenley

surname transfer

What Tinley means

Tinley is a variant of Tenley.

Origin, language, and formation

Tinley is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Tinley is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tenley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,663 girls were recorded with the name Tinley between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 358 in 2016; its best national rank was #795 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,151 in 2020 to #2,748 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #976 in 2015 to #2,748 in 2025.

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 Tinley?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 52,600
63 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,748
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
36,476 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tinley 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 2025 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 36,476 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tinley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tinleys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tinley was born before 2016 — so the typical Tinley is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
74.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,663
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 74.0% of all recorded uses (2,710).

Is Tinley 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
−403
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,597
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,772
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.23×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.6%
Peak was 2016 (358)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
54.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#795
2016

Spellings of Tinley

Tinley is not the most common spelling — Riley is, with 37.5% against Tinley's 0.97%.

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 Tinley is used

Across 2016–2025, Tinley was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 2,000 girls, against 1 in 7,096 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

150 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 2,000
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 2,083
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 2,564
  4. 4Indiana1 in 2,632
  5. 5Missouri1 in 2,632
  6. 6Kansas1 in 3,226
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 3,226
  8. 8Illinois1 in 3,704

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.

Tinley around the world

Where Tinley 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.

  • Canada
    2016–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Tinley by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,748
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,597
Best rank ever
#795
2016
Peak year
2016
358 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,663
Count in 2025
63

Names similar to Tinley

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

TinsleyTinzleyEnsleyCaileyHalleyWesleyBexleyHolleyRipleyEisleyBayleyBrileyKeeleyHenleyTenleyKenleyEmileyKarleyBentleyLinleyBrynleyRyleyTinleeKayley

Names with a curve like Tinley

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tinley, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AvalynAdilynnAddalynKensingtonEmmalynnAnnistonRilynnKynleeMilaniaAddelynKinleighBrayleigh

Sibling names for Tinley

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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