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Tynan vs Tynisa

American parents have registered 731 Tynans since 1880, against 215 Tynisas. Tynan is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tynan 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 47 years in which either name was published, Tynan for 40 years and Tynisa for 7 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Tynan Tynisa
Total US births 731215
Most in one year 3879
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 710210
Median age today 2548
Peak year 19941976
Best rank 2,123rd boys1,355th girls
Rank in 2025 12,008thunranked
First recorded 19811976
Girls / boys 0 / 731215 / 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 Tynisas alive today are over 48; half the Tynans are over 25. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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