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Tyree vs Tyreese

American parents have registered 15,570 Tyrees since 1880, against 2,022 Tyreeses. Tyree is still ahead, with 88 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyree Tyreese

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 1999, when Tyree had 549 and Tyreese had 175.

Side by side

  Tyree Tyreese
Total US births 15,5702,022
Most in one year 617175
Babies in 2025 8811
Estimated living today 14,0002,000
Median age today 2725
Peak year 19981999
Best rank 405th boys889th boys
Rank in 2025 1,808th7,194th
First recorded 19051969
Girls / boys 735 / 14,83549 / 1,973

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 Tyreeses are over 25. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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.

Country Tyree Tyreese
England and Wales 154274

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: Tyree and Tyreese.