# Tenley (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tenley/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,859 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 6,854 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Tineley in Northumberland or Teenley in West Yorkshire.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 736 | 425 |
| 2012 | 583 | 522 |
| 2013 | 517 | 563 |
| 2014 | 458 | 626 |
| 2015 | 427 | 671 |
| 2016 | 569 | 549 |
| 2017 | 376 | 749 |
| 2018 | 361 | 755 |
| 2019 | 279 | 949 |
| 2020 | 237 | 1,054 |
| 2021 | 188 | 1,255 |
| 2022 | 173 | 1,354 |
| 2023 | 117 | 1,760 |
| 2024 | 90 | 2,133 |
| 2025 | 72 | 2,481 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | 13,882 |

## People named Tenley

- Tenley Albright, American figure skater and surgeon

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.