Tenley
About Tenley
This name is currently best known on The Bachelorette's Tenley Molzahn. In the 1950s, it was attached to the Olympic figure skating champion Tenley Albright, and Jessica Biel played a Tenley in the movie Summer Catch.
The trendy ley ending makes Tenley feel familiar, but the unique Ten beginning sets is apart from more popular names like Hadley, Oakley, and OG fashionable ley-ending name Ashley.
Pronounced TEN-lee.
As of October 2026, Tenley ranked #2481 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #425 in 2011.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #626 | 458 | 256.4 |
| 2015 | #671 | 427 | 239.2 |
| 2016 | #549 | 569 | 321.1 |
| 2017 | #748 | 376 | 217.8 |
| 2018 | #753 | 361 | 212.2 |
| 2019 | #949 | 279 | 166.2 |
| 2020 | #1,053 | 237 | 146.6 |
| 2021 | #1,253 | 188 | 114.6 |
| 2022 | #1,354 | 173 | 105.5 |
| 2023 | #1,759 | 117 | 72.9 |
| 2024 | #2,142 | 89 | 54.9 |
| 2025 | #2,481 | 72 | 44.8 |
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Tenley on lists
Famous Tenleys
- Tenley Emma Albright
American Olympic. figure skater
- Tenley Molzahn
American reality TV personality ("The Bachelor")
- Tenley Reynolds (b. 2014)
daughter of NFL player Chase Reynolds
- Tenley Rose LeVasseur
daughter of reality TV personality Derrick LeVasseur of "Big Brother 16"
Tenley in pop culture
- Tenley Parrish
from the movie "Summer Catch"
- Tenley Lockwood
from Gena Showalter's "Everlife" series