Humanverse

Tylar vs Tyliyah

American parents have registered 2,984 Tylars since 1880, against 528 Tyliyahs. Tylar is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tylar 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

Tylar has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1980 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Tylar had 34 and Tyliyah had 25.

Side by side

  Tylar Tyliyah
Total US births 2,984528
Most in one year 16546
Babies in 2025 117
Estimated living today 2,900520
Median age today 2516
Peak year 19972002
Best rank 1,151st boys3,103rd girls
Rank in 2025 10,695th11,932nd
First recorded 19801996
Girls / boys 1,351 / 1,633528 / 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 Tyliyahs are over 16. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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