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Tyna vs Tynisa

American parents have registered 628 Tynas since 1880, against 215 Tynisas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyna against Tynisa, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyna Tynisa

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 48 years in which either name was published, Tyna for 40 years and Tynisa for 8 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Tyna Tynisa
Total US births 628215
Most in one year 2879
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 570210
Median age today 5448
Peak year 19671976
Best rank 2,272nd girls1,355th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19501976
Girls / boys 628 / 0215 / 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 Tynas alive today are over 54; half the Tynisas are over 48. That is 6 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: Tyna and Tynisa.