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Tyshaun vs Tyshawn

American parents have registered 5,400 Tyshawns since 1880, against 1,981 Tyshauns. Tyshawn is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyshaun against Tyshawn, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyshaun Tyshawn

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

Tyshawn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Tyshaun had 21 and Tyshawn had 34.

Side by side

  Tyshaun Tyshawn
Total US births 1,9815,400
Most in one year 109224
Babies in 2025 835
Estimated living today 1,9005,300
Median age today 2022
Peak year 20062008
Best rank 1,427th boys915th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910th3,314th
First recorded 19771972
Girls / boys 5 / 1,976134 / 5,266

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 Tyshawns alive today are over 22; half the Tyshauns are over 20. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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: Tyshaun and Tyshawn.