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A name. A world of connections.
A given name in Dutch, Danish and 3 more
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01 / Meaning & origin
Tine is a unisex given name documented in Dutch, Danish, Finnish and 2 other languages.
Separate records with matching spellings: Tiné (Q141672548)
No etymology is recorded in our sources for this spelling yet. The record exists because the name is documented in use; a meaning will be shown only once a cited source supports it.
02 / Across borders
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4 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.
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Published statistics
United States, 1978: 5 girls (rank 9750).
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03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
1945–2025 Spelling: Tine
Recorded category girls
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Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1946 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1947 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1948 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1949 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1950 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1951 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1952 | 4 | 399 | observed |
| 1953 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1954 | 4 | 416 | observed |
| 1955 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1956 | 6 | 356 | observed |
| 1957 | 9 | 289 | observed |
| 1958 | 5 | 398 | observed |
| 1959 | 9 | 316 | observed |
| 1960 | 12 | 263 | observed |
| 1961 | 6 | 385 | observed |
| 1962 | 16 | 223 | observed |
| 1963 | 19 | 208 | observed |
| 1964 | 21 | 191 | observed |
| 1965 | 14 | 260 | observed |
| 1966 | 30 | 157 | observed |
| 1967 | 40 | 128 | observed |
| 1968 | 35 | 149 | observed |
| 1969 | 27 | 171 | observed |
| 1970 | 44 | 132 | observed |
| 1971 | 45 | 131 | observed |
| 1972 | 43 | 144 | observed |
| 1973 | 31 | 173 | observed |
| 1974 | 55 | 120 | observed |
| 1975 | 46 | 138 | observed |
| 1976 | 53 | 118 | observed |
| 1977 | 34 | 164 | observed |
| 1978 | 44 | 140 | observed |
| 1979 | 32 | 172 | observed |
| 1980 | 35 | 163 | observed |
| 1981 | 61 | 109 | observed |
| 1982 | 90 | 83 | observed |
| 1983 | 88 | 81 | observed |
| 1984 | 89 | 83 | observed |
| 1985 | 118 | 61 | observed |
| 1986 | 145 | 52 | observed |
| 1987 | 117 | 63 | observed |
| 1988 | 100 | 73 | observed |
| 1989 | 101 | 81 | observed |
| 1990 | 109 | 77 | observed |
| 1991 | 95 | 88 | observed |
| 1992 | 55 | 133 | observed |
| 1993 | 32 | 194 | observed |
| 1994 | 36 | 168 | observed |
| 1995 | 19 | 251 | observed |
| 1996 | 18 | 245 | observed |
| 1997 | 19 | 238 | observed |
| 1998 | 30 | 183 | observed |
| 1999 | 15 | 271 | observed |
| 2000 | 15 | 289 | observed |
| 2001 | 14 | 281 | observed |
| 2002 | 17 | 254 | observed |
| 2003 | 14 | 289 | observed |
| 2004 | 11 | 353 | observed |
| 2005 | 15 | 298 | observed |
| 2006 | 10 | 379 | observed |
| 2007 | 9 | 419 | observed |
| 2008 | 6 | 494 | observed |
| 2009 | 6 | 499 | observed |
| 2010 | 8 | 442 | observed |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | 10 | 385 | observed |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | 8 | 422 | observed |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | 5 | 502 | observed |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “Tine” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Tine— “Christian”
…Her marvellous legend declares that she was thrown into lake Bolsena, with a mill-stone round her neck, but that she floated to the surface, supported by angels, and that she was at last shot to death with arrows. She is therefore, of course, patroness of Bolsena and of the Venetian States, where Cristina is frequent; and her fame travelled to Greece, Bohemia, and Hungary, from which last place the Atheling family brought it to England and Scotland in the person of…
…Her marvellous legend declares that she was thrown into lake Bolsena, with a mill-stone round her neck, but that she floated to the surface, supported by angels, and that she was at last shot to death with arrows. She is therefore, of course, patroness of Bolsena and of the Venetian States, where Cristina is frequent; and her fame travelled to Greece, Bohemia, and Hungary, from which last place the Atheling family brought it to England and Scotland in the person of Christina, Abbess of Romsey. Christian, like the other Greek names of this importation, took deep root in Scotland, where Kirstin is its abbreviation among the peasantry; and Christina, or Stine, and Tine, is common in Germany. John Bunyan’s Christiana, as the feminine of his allegorical Christian, has made this form the most common in England. Christine, either through Germany or Scotland, found its way to Scandinavia, where the contraction is Kirste, or Kirstine.…
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part III, Chapter V (Christian Greek Names), Section III (Names from Christos) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.
Norwegian musician
Danish badminton player
Slovene volleyball player
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
