Tyrone
About 80,146 American babies have been named Tyrone since 1914, most of them around 1970. In 2025 it ranked 1,388th. About 67,000 Tyrones are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 51.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tyrone boys named Tyrone
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 80,146
- Estimated living today
- 67,000
- Median age today
- 51
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 132nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,388th
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 709 / 79,437
How old the living Tyrones are
born that year still alive today
Of the 80,146 babies given the name since 1914, about 67,000 are alive — 84 in every hundred. Roughly 4,000 of them are children and 12,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1974 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
Origin a place name
From Irish Tír Eoghain.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Tyrones
- Tyrone Power (1914–1958)American actor
- Tyrone Mings (born 1993)English association football player
- Tyrone Mears (born 1983)English association football player
- Tyrone Spong (born 1985)Surinamese martial artist
- Tyrone Corbin (born 1962)American basketball player/coach
- Tyrone Smith (born 1984)Bermudian long jumper
- Tyrone Giordano (born 1976)American actor
- Tyrone Power Sr. (1869–1931)English-born American stage and screen actor
People named Tyrone with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tyrone is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tyrone is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (7.1×), Louisiana (2.8×), Maryland (2.8×), South Carolina (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular boys’ names the year Tyrone peaked:
Tyrone elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Tyrone | 1,594 | 225th |
| France boys | Tyrone | 275 | 1,699th |
| New Zealand boys | Tyrone | 231 | 84th |
| Ireland boys | Tyrone | 203 | 169th |
| Scotland boys | Tyrone | 39 | 322nd |
| Switzerland boys | Tyrone | 37 | 891st |
| Northern Ireland boys | Tyrone | 31 | 163rd |
| Belgium boys | Tyrone | 5 | 1,022nd |
| Poland boys | Tyrone | 2 birth registrations | 736th |
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.
Tyrone: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Tyrone | 27 | 0.002% | 832nd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Tyrone | 10 | 0.002% | 500th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Tyrone among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Tyrone | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Tyrone against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.