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Tinsley

Tinsley: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“Tynni's woodland clearing”
Origin
English
Say it
TINZ-lee · 2 syllables
Used for
Girls (98% of all uses)

From an English surname derived from a place name, combining an Old English personal name, probably Tynni, with leah 'woodland clearing, meadow'.

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How popular is Tinsley?

202450.0 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Tinsley in 2024165

2024 rank#1,371 girls

Peak year2020

Total US babies since 18804,529

Tinsley has been fairly stable over the last fifteen years.

Names like Tinsley

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

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Tinsley questions

What does the name Tinsley mean?

Tinsley means "Tynni's woodland clearing". It comes from English. From an English surname derived from a place name, combining an Old English personal name, probably Tynni, with leah 'woodland clearing, meadow'.

Is Tinsley a boy or girl name?

Tinsley is mainly a girl's name in US records (98% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Tinsley?

165 US babies were named Tinsley in 2024. Its peak year was 2020.

How do you pronounce Tinsley?

Tinsley is usually pronounced TINZ-lee.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.