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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Tennessee

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#4,974

up +1,166 places

2025 births

27

up +7 births

All-time births

986

3% of them in 2025

More common than

89%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2021
39 births
Best rank
#579
in 1884
First recorded
1880
#932 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1963
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
88 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 202139#3,874Peak
  2. 201934#4,257
  3. 201732#4,472
  4. 201830#4,652
  5. 201527#5,113

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #579 in 1884 · peak births 39 in 2021

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 28% boys■ 72% girls

381 boys · 986 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Tennessee has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.