How popular is the baby name Tina in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Tina.
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In mid-1955, Perry Como released pop song “Tina Marie” [vid]. “Tina Marie” became a big hit, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Best Sellers chart in August.
And, just like “Mona Lisa” inspired parents to name their baby girls Monalisa in 1950, “Tina Marie” inspired parents to name their baby girls Tinamarie in 1955:
1957: 14 baby girls named Tinamarie
1956: 17 baby girls named Tinamarie
1955: 10 baby girls named Tinamarie [debut]
1954: unlisted
1953: unlisted
The name Tina also saw a spike in usage that year. No doubt many of these Tinas had the middle name Marie.
Source: Macfarlane, Malcolm and Ken Crossland. Perry Como: A Biography and Complete Career Record. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2012.
We all know that Renault is a French automaker. But did you know that it’s also an American baby name?
In 1959, the name Renault (pronounced ruh-noh) appeared for the first time in the U.S. baby name data:
1961: 6 baby boys named Renault
1960: unlisted
1959: 8 baby boys named Renault [debut]
1958: unlisted
1957: unlisted
The name Dauphine (pronounced doh-feen), which was last on the charts since the 1920s, also saw a boost in usage around this time:
1961: unlisted
1960: 8 baby girls named Dauphine
1959: 10 baby girls named Dauphine
1958: unlisted
1957: unlisted
The cause? The Renault Dauphine, a “frisky, thrifty family car” introduced to U.S. consumers in 1957.
The car was widely praised (at first) and sales rose impressively during the late ’50s, peaking in 1959.
I even found a baby girl born in Texas in 1959 with the name Renault Dauphine Sanders. None of her four sisters — Netha, Andra, Elizabeth, and Tina — were named for cars.
Here’s a TV commercial for the Renault Dauphine. Notice how the American voice-over actor pronounces company name ruh-nawlt.
But the rise of the Renault Dauphine was cut short when problems began to emerge. The Dauphine was quick to rust, for instance, and it took more than 30 seconds to reach 60 mph. Sales started falling in 1960 and never recovered. Renault stopped producing new Dauphines altogether in the late ’60s.
Another name that may have been influenced by Renault? Ondine:
1963: unlisted
1962: unlisted
1961: 5 baby girls named Ondine [debut]
1960: unlisted
1959: unlisted
The Renault Ondine was a variant of the Renault Dauphine produced from 1960 to 1962. It came to America in 1961, and while it was typically called the “Deluxe” here, the name “Ondine” was mentioned here and there (like in Car Life).
So what do all these names mean? Ondine is the French form of Undine, Dauphine refers to the wife of the Dauphin (the heir apparent to the French throne), and Renault is a variant of the French surname Renaud, which has the same Germanic root as the English name Reynold.
(Ironically, a name very similar to Dauphine, Delphine, saw peak usage in 1958 thanks to a TV character. It’s possible that the character name helped the car name seem even trendier right around that time.)
The names Dodie, Dody, and Dodi are most familiar to us as nicknames for Dorothy (or Dolores).
But in 1997, Dodi popped up in the U.S. baby name data as a boy name for the first and only time:
1999: unlisted
1998: unlisted
1997: 5 baby boys named Dodi [debut]
1996: unlisted
1995: unlisted
Why?
Because 1997 was the year that Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed died in a high-speed car crash in Paris. The crash happened on August 31 — almost exactly a year after Diana’s divorce from Prince Charles was finalized.
Diana and Dodi had only been together since July, but their romance quickly became the top tabloid story of the summer. CNN said on August 11 that their relationship “[was] just a few weeks old, but Monday’s headlines on Britain’s royalty-obsessed tabloids practically had them married.”
Wealthy playboy Dodi, whose full name was Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Al-Fayed, was the son of an Egyptian billionaire. Before Diana, he had been linked to a string famous women including Brooke Shields, Tawny Kitaen, and Tina Sinatra.
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