Tennessee

girls’ name · 72%boys’ name · 28%SteadyCompare

Tennessee is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. Its best rank was 579th, in 1884.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 200.00% of girls
Peak year: 202139 births
Best rank: #579in 1884
Since 1880: 1,328people given the name

Babies named Tennessee, by year of birthgirlsboys

The story in the numbers

959 girls have been named Tennessee in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 39 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 2010s alone account for 24%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Tennessee is used for both sexes: 28% of its bearers are boys (369), most of them born around 2015.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Tennessee
1880s	60
1890s	79
1900s	90
1910s	119
1920s	79
1930s	35
1940s	23
1990s	38
2000s	81
2010s	228
2020s	127

In 2021, its biggest year

Tennessee was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2021 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Ava. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Tennessee

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.