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Tyr vs Tyron

American parents have registered 7,686 Tyrons since 1880, against 518 Tyrs. But in 2025 it was Tyr that was commoner, 40 babies to 33.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyr against Tyron, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyr Tyron

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 88 years in which either name was published, Tyron for 84 years and Tyr for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tyr Tyron
Total US births 5187,686
Most in one year 69202
Babies in 2025 4033
Estimated living today 5107,200
Median age today 434
Peak year 20231990
Best rank 2,113th boys716th boys
Rank in 2025 3,036th3,450th
First recorded 20021938
Girls / boys 0 / 51816 / 7,670

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 Tyrons alive today are over 34; half the Tyrs are over 4. That is 30 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tyr Tyron
England and Wales 20351

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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