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Tyrann vs Tyree

American parents have registered 15,570 Tyrees since 1880, against 132 Tyranns. Tyree is still ahead, with 88 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyrann against Tyree, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyrann Tyree

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

Tyree has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1905 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Tyrann had 18 and Tyree had 195.

Side by side

  Tyrann Tyree
Total US births 13215,570
Most in one year 18617
Babies in 2025 under 588
Estimated living today 13014,000
Median age today 927
Peak year 20131998
Best rank 4,981st boys405th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,808th
First recorded 20121905
Girls / boys 0 / 132735 / 14,835

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 Tyrees alive today are over 27; half the Tyranns are over 9. 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: Tyrann and Tyree.