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Tyra vs Tyrion

American parents have registered 14,769 Tyras since 1880, against 766 Tyrions. Tyra is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyra Tyrion

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 92 years in which either name was published, Tyra for 90 years and Tyrion for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Tyra Tyrion
Total US births 14,769766
Most in one year 94362
Babies in 2025 3218
Estimated living today 14,000760
Median age today 299
Peak year 19982015
Best rank 319th girls2,189th boys
Rank in 2025 4,352nd5,208th
First recorded 19141997
Girls / boys 14,626 / 1437 / 759

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 Tyrions are over 9. That is 20 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 Tyrion
England and Wales 97298

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 Tyrion.