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Tyreece vs Tyrone

American parents have registered 80,146 Tyrones since 1880, against 683 Tyreeces. Tyrone is still ahead, with 132 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyreece against Tyrone, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyreece Tyrone

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

Tyrone has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Tyreece had 62 and Tyrone had 556.

Side by side

  Tyreece Tyrone
Total US births 68380,146
Most in one year 622,561
Babies in 2025 6132
Estimated living today 66067,000
Median age today 2651
Peak year 19991970
Best rank 1,692nd boys132nd boys
Rank in 2025 10,695th1,388th
First recorded 19761914
Girls / boys 0 / 683709 / 79,437

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 Tyrones alive today are over 51; half the Tyreeces are over 26. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tyreece Tyrone
England and Wales 7171,594
Ireland 5203
Scotland 339

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: Tyreece and Tyrone.