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Tiny

UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Form of Martijn

Tiny has been given to 2,248 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1920, with 58 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.

Babies named Tiny, 1993

1 in 628,000

Tiny over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Tiny over time

In 1993, Tiny went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18811993

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.

Tiny: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Martijn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tiny means

Tiny is a form of Martijn.

Origin, language, and formation

Tiny is used in Dutch.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Martijn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,087 girls were recorded with the name Tiny between 1881 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 58 in 1920; its best national rank was #610 in 1884.

In the United States, 161 boys were recorded with the name Tiny between 1915 and 1960. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1916; its best national rank was #2,524 in 1916.

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 Tiny?

Tiny had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993
1 in 628,000
6 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only
1 in 301,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
435,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tiny 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 1993 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 435,382 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tiny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tinys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tiny was born before 1929 — so the typical Tiny is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
499
People you could plausibly meet
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1920s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (421).

Is Tiny 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 1920 (58)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#610
1884

Spellings of Tiny

Tiny is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 16.0% against Tiny's 0.11%.

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 Tiny is used

Across 1910–2025, Tiny was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 133,538 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 33,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in 50,000
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 100,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8California1 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. Tiny has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tiny around the world

Where Tiny 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.

  • France
    2000–2000
    #4,542
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1961–1961
    #665
    in 1961

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tiny

People whose public names include Tiny, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tiny in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tiny. Linked forms have their own page here.

Tini

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tiny 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
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Best rank ever
#610
1884
Peak year
1920
58 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
2,087
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,524
1916
Peak year
1916
11 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1960
All-time count
161
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tiny

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

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Names with a curve like Tiny

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

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Sibling names for Tiny

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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