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Tylah vs Tyler

American parents have registered 621,493 Tylers since 1880, against 666 Tylahs. Tyler is still ahead, with 1,734 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tylah against Tyler, 1880 to 2025 0 8k 16k 24k 32k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tylah Tyler

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

Tyler has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Tylah had 28 and Tyler had 1,734.

Side by side

  Tylah Tyler
Total US births 666621,493
Most in one year 3531,536
Babies in 2025 281,734
Estimated living today 660602,000
Median age today 1328
Peak year 20151994
Best rank 4,144th girls5th boys
Rank in 2025 4,758th219th
First recorded 19911880
Girls / boys 666 / 017,523 / 603,970

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 Tylers alive today are over 28; half the Tylahs are over 13. That is 15 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 Tyler
England and Wales 11044,061

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 Tyler.