Ty vs Tyson

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Ty Tyson

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 111 years in which either name was published, Tyson for 60 years and Ty for 51 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

• 1912–1922 Tyson ahead
• 1923 Ty ahead
• 1924–1936 Tyson ahead
• 1937 Ty ahead
• 1939–1940 Tyson ahead
• 1941–1945 Ty ahead
• 1946–1947 Tyson ahead
• 1948–1972 Ty ahead
• 1973–1990 Tyson ahead
• 1991–2009 Ty ahead
• 2010–2025 Tyson ahead

Side by side

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 Tys alive today are over 23; half the Tysons are over 21. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Ty Utah (3.9×), Wyoming (3.1×), Montana (3.0×)
• Tyson Utah (9.4×), Idaho (6.7×), Hawaii (3.8×)

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.

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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