Tinamarie
Feminine
Tinamarie joins a detached ending to a whole name. Tina began as the back of Christina and Martina and Albertina, came loose, and became a name in its own right that has outlived most of the names it was cut from; Marie was always a name and never anything else.
How old is the name Tinamarie?
Tinamarie first appears in US birth records in 1955 — 70 years ago. The typical Tinamarie alive today was born around 1974, making them about 51 years old. About 1,100 people named Tinamarie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tinamarie most popular?
Tinamarie peaked in 1968, reaching #1459 nationally. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Tinamarie
Tina is one of the great success stories of detached endings. It was never a name in Latin or in any of the languages that produced the long forms; it was the tail of Christina, Martina, Ernestina, Albertina and half a dozen others, and it came off in Italian and English at about the same period and started standing up on its own. By the middle of the twentieth century it was a full name given to children with no longer version on the certificate, and it is now considerably more common than most of its parents. That happens to endings that are heavy enough to carry stress and open enough to sound like a name, which is a narrow specification and explains why so few of them manage it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The first half is an ending with no meaning of its own, and the second is Mary in its French form, whose Hebrew original has never been securely explained. So one half has no meaning and the other has one that nobody can supply, which is an unusual combination and an honest description.
Pronouncing Tinamarie
TEE-nuh-muh-REE
Four syllables with a stress at each end. The two halves keep their own weight, which is what marks the name as a compound rather than a single word; families who run them together produce three syllables.
Nicknames for Tinamarie
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1955
- Most girls named
- 197055 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1459reached in 1968
- Change vs 2008
- 0.0%8 in 2009, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tinamaries among us
people named Tinamarie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Tinamarie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Both halves are entirely familiar, so the name is understood the instant it is said.
- Two complete, established names sit inside it and either can be used alone.
- Written as one word it works as a single name and needs no hyphen.
- Four syllables is a great deal of name and it will be shortened by other people at once.
- Tina Marie and Tinamarie both exist, so the written form has to be specified.
- Compound names of this shape are firmly dated to the middle of the last century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tinamaries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Tinamarie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tinamarie in 2025?
- Tinamarie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Tinamarie with classmates?
- Tinamarie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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