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Tyree vs Tyrell

American parents have registered 16,215 Tyrells since 1880, against 15,570 Tyrees. But in 2025 it was Tyree that was commoner, 88 babies to 78.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyree Tyrell

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 119 years in which either name was published, Tyree for 95 years and Tyrell for 24 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Tyree Tyrell
Total US births 15,57016,215
Most in one year 617677
Babies in 2025 8878
Estimated living today 14,00016,000
Median age today 2729
Peak year 19981992
Best rank 405th boys354th boys
Rank in 2025 1,808th1,959th
First recorded 19051947
Girls / boys 735 / 14,835145 / 16,070

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 Tyrells alive today are over 29; half the Tyrees are over 27. 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 Tyrell
England and Wales 1541,145

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 Tyrell.