Tirrell vs Tirzah
American parents have registered 2,095 Tirzahs since 1880, against 793 Tirrells. Tirzah is still ahead, with 62 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Tirrell Tirzah
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 69 years in which either name was published, Tirzah for 52 years and Tirrell for 17 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1899–1968 Tirzah ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1969–1978 Tirrell ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1981–1986 Tirzah ahead
- 1987–1993 Tirrell ahead
- 1994–2025 Tirzah ahead
6 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Tirrell | Tirzah | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 793 | 2,095 |
| Most in one year | 37 | 71 |
| Babies in 2025 | 6 | 62 |
| Estimated living today | 750 | 2,000 |
| Median age today | 38 | 18 |
| Peak year | 1989 | 2017 |
| Best rank | 1,953rd boys | 2,508th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 10,695th | 2,751st |
| First recorded | 1956 | 1899 |
| Girls / boys | 13 / 780 | 2,095 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Tirrells alive today are over 38; half the Tirzahs are over 18. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tirrell and Tirzah.