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Tyra vs Tyrome

American parents have registered 14,769 Tyras since 1880, against 909 Tyromes. Tyra is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyra Tyrome

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 1958, when Tyra had 37 and Tyrome had 12.

Side by side

  Tyra Tyrome
Total US births 14,769909
Most in one year 94333
Babies in 2025 32under 5
Estimated living today 14,000820
Median age today 2947
Peak year 19981971
Best rank 319th girls1,494th boys
Rank in 2025 4,352ndunranked
First recorded 19141949
Girls / boys 14,626 / 1430 / 909

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 Tyromes alive today are over 47; half the Tyras are over 29. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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