About the name Tinley
Tinley belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Tinley first appears in Social Security records in 2002. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #795 in 2016, and in 2024 78 babies received the name — 3,598 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.