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Tyce vs Tycen

American parents have registered 2,614 Tyces since 1880, against 635 Tycens. Tyce is still ahead, with 63 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyce against Tycen, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyce Tycen

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

Tyce has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1942 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1987, when Tyce had 5 and Tycen had 5.

Side by side

  Tyce Tycen
Total US births 2,614635
Most in one year 16941
Babies in 2025 6328
Estimated living today 2,600630
Median age today 1412
Peak year 20102009
Best rank 1,116th boys2,894th boys
Rank in 2025 2,230th3,848th
First recorded 19421987
Girls / boys 0 / 2,6140 / 635

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 Tyces alive today are over 14; half the Tycens are over 12. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tyce and Tycen.