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Tyna vs Tynlee

American parents have registered 628 Tynas since 1880, against 455 Tynlees. But in 2025 it was Tynlee that was commoner, 9 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyna against Tynlee, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyna Tynlee

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 62 years in which either name was published, Tyna for 46 years and Tynlee for 16 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tyna Tynlee
Total US births 628455
Most in one year 2849
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 570450
Median age today 5410
Peak year 19672016
Best rank 2,272nd girls3,280th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked10,107th
First recorded 19502010
Girls / boys 628 / 0455 / 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 Tynlees are over 10. That is 44 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 Tynlee.