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Tyree vs Tyrome

American parents have registered 15,570 Tyrees since 1880, against 909 Tyromes. Tyree is still ahead, with 88 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyree Tyrome

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 1968, when Tyree had 33 and Tyrome had 30.

Side by side

  Tyree Tyrome
Total US births 15,570909
Most in one year 61733
Babies in 2025 88under 5
Estimated living today 14,000820
Median age today 2747
Peak year 19981971
Best rank 405th boys1,494th boys
Rank in 2025 1,808thunranked
First recorded 19051949
Girls / boys 735 / 14,8350 / 909

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 Tyromes alive today are over 47; half the Tyrees are over 27. That is 20 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 Tyrome.