Humanverse

Tyleah vs Tyler

American parents have registered 621,493 Tylers since 1880, against 635 Tyleahs. Tyler is still ahead, with 1,734 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyleah 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 2023, when Tyleah had 21 and Tyler had 2,202.

Side by side

  Tyleah Tyler
Total US births 635621,493
Most in one year 3731,536
Babies in 2025 121,734
Estimated living today 630602,000
Median age today 1328
Peak year 20141994
Best rank 4,003rd girls5th boys
Rank in 2025 8,362nd219th
First recorded 19951880
Girls / boys 635 / 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 Tyleahs are over 13. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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