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Tyra vs Tyreke

American parents have registered 14,769 Tyras since 1880, against 1,442 Tyrekes. Tyra is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyra Tyreke

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 2022, when Tyra had 38 and Tyreke had 19.

Side by side

  Tyra Tyreke
Total US births 14,7691,442
Most in one year 943220
Babies in 2025 328
Estimated living today 14,0001,400
Median age today 2923
Peak year 19981999
Best rank 319th girls737th boys
Rank in 2025 4,352nd8,910th
First recorded 19141981
Girls / boys 14,626 / 1430 / 1,442

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 Tyrekes are over 23. That is 6 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Tyra Tyreke
England and Wales 97297
Ireland 183

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 Tyreke.