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Tyler vs Tylynn

American parents have registered 621,493 Tylers since 1880, against 740 Tylynns. Tyler is still ahead, with 1,734 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyler against Tylynn, 1880 to 2025 0 8k 16k 24k 32k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyler Tylynn

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

Tyler has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Tyler had 1,734 and Tylynn had 31.

Side by side

  Tyler Tylynn
Total US births 621,493740
Most in one year 31,53633
Babies in 2025 1,73431
Estimated living today 602,000730
Median age today 2815
Peak year 19941992
Best rank 5th boys4,088th girls
Rank in 2025 219th5,554th
First recorded 18801984
Girls / boys 17,523 / 603,970637 / 103

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 Tylers alive today are over 28; half the Tylynns are over 15. That is 13 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: Tyler and Tylynn.