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Tylar vs Tylie

American parents have registered 2,984 Tylars since 1880, against 515 Tylies. But in 2025 it was Tylie that was commoner, 15 babies to 11.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tylar Tylie

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 45 years in which either name was published, Tylar for 43 years and Tylie for 2 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Tylar Tylie
Total US births 2,984515
Most in one year 16531
Babies in 2025 1115
Estimated living today 2,900510
Median age today 2513
Peak year 19972013
Best rank 1,151st boys4,543rd girls
Rank in 2025 10,695th7,133rd
First recorded 19801993
Girls / boys 1,351 / 1,633515 / 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 Tylars alive today are over 25; half the Tylies are over 13. That is 12 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: Tylar and Tylie.