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Tylee vs Tylie

American parents have registered 1,992 Tylees since 1880, against 515 Tylies. Tylee is still ahead, with 48 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tylee 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

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 2012, when Tylee had 50 and Tylie had 27.

Side by side

  Tylee Tylie
Total US births 1,992515
Most in one year 10131
Babies in 2025 4815
Estimated living today 2,000510
Median age today 1513
Peak year 20082013
Best rank 2,397th girls4,543rd girls
Rank in 2025 3,577th7,133rd
First recorded 19721993
Girls / boys 1,591 / 401515 / 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 Tylees alive today are over 15; half the Tylies are over 13. That is 2 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: Tylee and Tylie.