Tully
Tully is a boy's name that peaked in 2004, when it was the 3,735th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 960 Tullys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tully boys named Tully
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,244
- Estimated living today
- 960
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 2004
- Best rank
- 3,735th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,143rd
- First recorded
- 1900
- Girls / boys
- 199 / 1,045
How old the living Tullys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,244 babies given the name since 1900, about 960 are alive — 77 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
A shortened Anglicization of Scottish Gaelic Ó Taithligh and Ó Maol Tuile.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Tullys
- Tully Marshall (1864–1943)American actor
- Tully Bevilaqua (born 1972)Australian basketball player
- Tully Blanchard (born 1955)American professional wrestler
People named Tully with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tully is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2004
The most popular boys’ names the year Tully peaked:
Tully elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Tully | 46 | 2,813th |
| England and Wales girls | Tully | 38 | 2,440th |
| Scotland girls | Tully | 3 | 790th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Tully against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.