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Tyra vs Tyrece

American parents have registered 14,769 Tyras since 1880, against 756 Tyreces. Tyra is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyra against Tyrece, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyra Tyrece

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

Tyra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Tyra had 28 and Tyrece had 7.

Side by side

  Tyra Tyrece
Total US births 14,769756
Most in one year 94372
Babies in 2025 325
Estimated living today 14,000730
Median age today 2926
Peak year 19981999
Best rank 319th girls1,545th boys
Rank in 2025 4,352nd12,008th
First recorded 19141973
Girls / boys 14,626 / 1430 / 756

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 Tyras alive today are over 29; half the Tyreces are over 26. That is 3 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 Tyra Tyrece
England and Wales 97284

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: Tyra and Tyrece.