Tenaya
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 17 babies a year in the US.
Tenaya by the numbers
Tenaya was given to 17 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 43 babies in 1975, making it a 1970s name.
What we can tell you about Tenaya
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Tenaya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Tanayadaughter24 in the US (2017)
- Tanyaworthy of praise; diminutive form of tatiana91 in the US (2017)
- Taniyaworthy of praise; a modern respelling of Tanya58 in the US (2017)
- Tonyapriceless; a form of Antonya or Antonia23 in the US (2017)
- Tanayson or offspring19 in the US (2017)
- Teyana64 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Tenaya
Names that are said the same way as Tenaya, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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