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Tylah vs Tylan

American parents have registered 4,088 Tylans since 1880, against 666 Tylahs. Tylan is still ahead, with 187 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tylah against Tylan, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tylah Tylan

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

Tylan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1962 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Tylah had 6 and Tylan had 18.

Side by side

  Tylah Tylan
Total US births 6664,088
Most in one year 35208
Babies in 2025 28187
Estimated living today 6604,000
Median age today 1314
Peak year 20152024
Best rank 4,144th girls1,092nd boys
Rank in 2025 4,758th1,132nd
First recorded 19911962
Girls / boys 666 / 0180 / 3,908

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Tylah Tylan
England and Wales 110194

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: Tylah and Tylan.