Tysean vs Tyshon
American parents have registered 1,422 Tyshons since 1880, against 1,027 Tyseans. Tyshon is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Tysean Tyshon
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 53 years in which either name was published, Tyshon for 42 years and Tysean for 11 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1973–2002 Tyshon ahead
- 2005–2017 Tysean ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2018–2025 Tyshon ahead, apart from one short spell
8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Tysean | Tyshon | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,027 | 1,422 |
| Most in one year | 58 | 55 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 7 |
| Estimated living today | 1,000 | 1,400 |
| Median age today | 20 | 25 |
| Peak year | 2005 | 2000 |
| Best rank | 2,114th boys | 1,895th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 9,714th |
| First recorded | 1976 | 1973 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,027 | 11 / 1,411 |
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 Tyshons alive today are over 25; half the Tyseans are over 20. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Tysean New York (8.1×), Illinois (2.2×)
- Tyshon New Jersey (13.0×), North Carolina (5.5×), New York (2.2×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tysean and Tyshon.