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Ty vs Tyree

American parents have registered 48,344 Tys since 1880, against 15,570 Tyrees. Ty is still ahead, with 311 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ty against Tyree, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ty Tyree

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 119 years in which either name was published, Ty for 75 years and Tyree for 44 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ty Tyree
Total US births 48,34415,570
Most in one year 2,475617
Babies in 2025 31188
Estimated living today 46,00014,000
Median age today 2327
Peak year 20051998
Best rank 169th boys405th boys
Rank in 2025 810th1,808th
First recorded 19151905
Girls / boys 737 / 47,607735 / 14,835

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 Tyrees alive today are over 27; half the Tys are over 23. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ty Tyree
England and Wales 1,223154
Scotland 7614

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ty and Tyree.