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Tylah vs Tylar

American parents have registered 2,984 Tylars since 1880, against 666 Tylahs. But in 2025 it was Tylah that was commoner, 28 babies to 11.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tylah against Tylar, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tylah Tylar

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 45 years in which either name was published, Tylar for 42 years and Tylah for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tylah Tylar
Total US births 6662,984
Most in one year 35165
Babies in 2025 2811
Estimated living today 6602,900
Median age today 1325
Peak year 20151997
Best rank 4,144th girls1,151st boys
Rank in 2025 4,758th10,695th
First recorded 19911980
Girls / boys 666 / 01,351 / 1,633

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 Tylars alive today are over 25; half the Tylahs are over 13. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Tylah Tylar
England and Wales 110108

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 Tylar.