Tin
Tin is a name with a single cultural origin: Croatian.
- Croatian
Meaning & Origin of Tin
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Tin is a name with a single cultural origin: Croatian.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Croatian
The Story of Tin
The earliest SSA record of Tin as a baby boy name dates back to 1979, when 6 babies received it. 1993 was its biggest year on record, with 18 newborns named Tin — #3,500 in the national rankings. About 32% of every Tin on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Tin last appeared in the published SSA data in 2020, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 436 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Tin
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Tin. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Tin
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Source: Datamuse . Phonetic similarity ranking, not curated.
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About the name Tin
Tin is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1979 and has accumulated 436 births in the dataset. Tin's peak popularity came in 1993 when it ranked #3,500. Use the chart and map above to compare Tin's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.