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Tyrah vs Tyron

American parents have registered 7,686 Tyrons since 1880, against 680 Tyrahs. Tyron is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyrah against Tyron, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyrah Tyron

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

Tyron has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1938 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Tyrah had 63 and Tyron had 163.

Side by side

  Tyrah Tyron
Total US births 6807,686
Most in one year 63202
Babies in 2025 under 533
Estimated living today 6707,200
Median age today 2534
Peak year 19911990
Best rank 2,111th girls716th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,450th
First recorded 19721938
Girls / boys 680 / 016 / 7,670

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 Tyrons alive today are over 34; half the Tyrahs are over 25. That is 9 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 Tyrah Tyron
England and Wales 33351

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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Related comparisons

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