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Tylar

Tylar reached its high-water mark in 1997 at number 1,151, and has been recorded 2,984 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 2,900 Tylars are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Tylar boys named Tylar

Girls and boys called Tylar

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Tylar crossed from boys to girls in 2012, and has stayed there for 11 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 79% girls, which is roughly where it still is.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 34 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
2,984
Estimated living today
2,900
Median age today
25
Peak year
1997
Best rank
1,151st
Rank in 2025
10,695th
First recorded
1980
Girls / boys
1,351 / 1,633

How old the living Tylars are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,984 babies given the name since 1980, about 2,900 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 750 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 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 Tylar is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Tylar is most concentrated in Ohio (3.4×), Louisiana (3.0×), Texas (2.5×), Missouri (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1997

The most popular boys’ names the year Tylar peaked:

All the names of 1997

Tylar elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Tylar 94 2,194th
Scotland boys Tylar 18 500th
England and Wales girls Tylar 14 2,540th
Ireland boys Tylar 3 718th

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

Tylar 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.