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Tylah vs Tylee

American parents have registered 1,992 Tylees since 1880, against 666 Tylahs. Tylee is still ahead, with 48 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tylah against Tylee, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tylah Tylee

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

Tylee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Tylah had 18 and Tylee had 21.

Side by side

  Tylah Tylee
Total US births 6661,992
Most in one year 35101
Babies in 2025 2848
Estimated living today 6602,000
Median age today 1315
Peak year 20152008
Best rank 4,144th girls2,397th girls
Rank in 2025 4,758th3,577th
First recorded 19911972
Girls / boys 666 / 01,591 / 401

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 Tylees alive today are over 15; half the Tylahs are over 13. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Tylah Tylee
England and Wales 1103

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: Tylah and Tylee.