Tinna

Girls' name

Flint

Tinna has been given to 317 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 1966, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Tinna, 1996

1 in 729,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tinna: meaning, origin, and history

Flint

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tinna means

Tinna means “flint”, associated with tinna.

Origin, language, and formation

Tinna is used in Faroese.

Tinna comes through Old Norse tinna.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 317 girls were recorded with the name Tinna between 1957 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1966; its best national rank was #2,657 in 1966.

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 Tinna?

Tinna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1996: 1 in 729,000; 5 of 3,646,048 births
Among girls only: 1 in 350,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1996: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 505,451 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Tinna 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 1996 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 505,451 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tinna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tinnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tinna was born before 1968 — so the typical Tinna is around 57 today.

Median birth year: 1968; About 57 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 47.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 32.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 317; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 47.0% of all recorded uses (149).

Is Tinna 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 1966 (22)
Years since peak: 59; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 36.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,657; 1966

Spellings of Tinna

Tinna is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 26.2% against Tinna's <0.01%.

Linda26.2%1,455,143
Anna16.5%914,859
Donna15.0%831,641
Diana6.6%368,487
Tina5.3%292,146
Gina2.8%153,057
Jenna2.7%148,587
Nina2.4%133,788

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 Tinna is used

Across 1910–2025, Tinna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

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

Tinna 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: #2,657; 1966
Peak year: 1966; 22 that year
First recorded: 1957
Last recorded: 1996
All-time count: 317
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Tinna

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

Tinlee Tiney Kanna Ionna Tinia Lunna Ahnna Menna Manna Zenna Venna Tinslee Yanna Zanna Gwenna Tinya Xianna Nnenna Sanna Nyanna Syanna Fenna Wrenna Fianna

Sibling names for Tinna

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

Rona Dawna Rosita Collette Barbra Sarita Kandy Cami

For a brother

Deron Darron Daron Kip Kraig Daren Kelley Richie

Explore around Tinna

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