# Tinsley (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tinsley/  
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 | English |
| Meaning | “woodland clearing”, “glade” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,747 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 88 / 4,659 (98% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From the unattested Old English personal name *Tynni + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

## 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 | 232 | 1,065 |
| 2012 | 207 | 1,194 |
| 2013 | 224 | 1,098 |
| 2014 | 221 | 1,138 |
| 2015 | 266 | 1,010 |
| 2016 | 280 | 966 |
| 2017 | 324 | 842 |
| 2018 | 353 | 774 |
| 2019 | 341 | 807 |
| 2020 | 388 | 721 |
| 2021 | 301 | 900 |
| 2022 | 300 | 916 |
| 2023 | 254 | 1,004 |
| 2024 | 166 | 1,373 |
| 2025 | 213 | 1,112 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1919 | 6 | 4,122 |
| 1920 | 8 | 3,475 |
| 1926 | 7 | 3,674 |
| 1938 | 5 | 3,993 |
| 1940 | 5 | 3,897 |
| 1941 | 6 | 3,470 |
| 1945 | 6 | 3,301 |
| 1947 | 8 | 3,074 |
| 1949 | 5 | 4,160 |
| 1953 | 6 | 3,771 |
| 1965 | 5 | 4,382 |
| 1976 | 5 | 6,425 |
| 2006 | 5 | 13,825 |
| 2009 | 6 | 12,333 |
| 2017 | 5 | 14,072 |

## 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.