Tyra vs Tyrone

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Tyra Tyrone

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 107 years in which either name was published, Tyrone for 98 years and Tyra for 9 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

• 1914–1915 Tyra ahead
• 1917 Tyrone ahead
• 1918 Tyra ahead
• 1920–1996 Tyrone ahead
• 1997–2000 Tyra ahead
• 2001–2004 Tyrone ahead
• 2005–2006 Tyra ahead
• 2007–2025 Tyrone ahead

Side by side

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 Tyrones alive today are over 51; half the Tyras are over 29. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Tyra Louisiana (3.3×), Maryland (3.2×), Hawaii (2.1×)
• Tyrone the District of Columbia (7.1×), Louisiana (2.8×), Maryland (2.8×)

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.

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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