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Tyree vs Tyrie

American parents have registered 15,570 Tyrees since 1880, against 892 Tyries. Tyree is still ahead, with 88 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyree Tyrie

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 2023, when Tyree had 110 and Tyrie had 27.

Side by side

  Tyree Tyrie
Total US births 15,570892
Most in one year 61744
Babies in 2025 8816
Estimated living today 14,000870
Median age today 2724
Peak year 19982007
Best rank 405th boys2,721st boys
Rank in 2025 1,808th5,608th
First recorded 19051975
Girls / boys 735 / 14,83541 / 851

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 Tyries are over 24. That is 3 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: Tyree and Tyrie.