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Tyla vs Tylon

American parents have registered 3,378 Tylas since 1880, against 1,234 Tylons. Tyla is still ahead, with 142 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyla Tylon

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 66 years in which either name was published, Tyla for 64 years and Tylon for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Tyla Tylon
Total US births 3,3781,234
Most in one year 14256
Babies in 2025 14218
Estimated living today 3,3001,200
Median age today 2220
Peak year 20252006
Best rank 1,500th girls2,248th boys
Rank in 2025 1,500th5,208th
First recorded 19581965
Girls / boys 3,371 / 70 / 1,234

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 Tylons are over 20. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tyla Tylon
England and Wales 1,0614

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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