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Tyrone vs Tyronne

American parents have registered 80,146 Tyrones since 1880, against 1,158 Tyronnes. Tyrone is still ahead, with 132 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyrone against Tyronne, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyrone Tyronne

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

Tyrone has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1973, when Tyrone had 1,858 and Tyronne had 48.

Side by side

  Tyrone Tyronne
Total US births 80,1461,158
Most in one year 2,56151
Babies in 2025 132under 5
Estimated living today 67,000990
Median age today 5152
Peak year 19701970
Best rank 132nd boys1,159th boys
Rank in 2025 1,388thunranked
First recorded 19141946
Girls / boys 709 / 79,4370 / 1,158

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Tyrone Tyronne
England and Wales 1,59430

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: Tyrone and Tyronne.