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Tyla vs Tyliyah

American parents have registered 3,378 Tylas since 1880, against 528 Tyliyahs. Tyla is still ahead, with 142 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyla against Tyliyah, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyla Tyliyah

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

Tyla has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1958 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Tyla had 44 and Tyliyah had 25.

Side by side

  Tyla Tyliyah
Total US births 3,378528
Most in one year 14246
Babies in 2025 1427
Estimated living today 3,300520
Median age today 2216
Peak year 20252002
Best rank 1,500th girls3,103rd girls
Rank in 2025 1,500th11,932nd
First recorded 19581996
Girls / boys 3,371 / 7528 / 0

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 Tylas alive today are over 22; half the Tyliyahs are over 16. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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