Tykeria vs Tykia

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Tykeria Tykia

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

Of the 36 years in which either name was published, Tykia for 22 years and Tykeria for 14 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

• 1977–1998 Tykia ahead
• 1999–2011 Tykeria ahead
• 2012 Tykia ahead
• 2013 Tykeria ahead

Side by side

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 Tykias alive today are over 28; half the Tykerias are over 23. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Tykeria Georgia (15.1×), Mississippi (11.3×), Alabama (11.2×)
• Tykia Georgia (12.2×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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