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Tyrann vs Tyrell

American parents have registered 16,215 Tyrells since 1880, against 132 Tyranns. Tyrell is still ahead, with 78 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyrann against Tyrell, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyrann Tyrell

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

Tyrell has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1947 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Tyrann had 18 and Tyrell had 165.

Side by side

  Tyrann Tyrell
Total US births 13216,215
Most in one year 18677
Babies in 2025 under 578
Estimated living today 13016,000
Median age today 929
Peak year 20131992
Best rank 4,981st boys354th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,959th
First recorded 20121947
Girls / boys 0 / 132145 / 16,070

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 Tyrells alive today are over 29; half the Tyranns are over 9. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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