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Tyreik vs Tyrell

American parents have registered 16,215 Tyrells since 1880, against 569 Tyreiks. Tyrell is still ahead, with 78 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyreik 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

Tyrell has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1947 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1998, when Tyreik had 58 and Tyrell had 498.

Side by side

  Tyreik Tyrell
Total US births 56916,215
Most in one year 58677
Babies in 2025 under 578
Estimated living today 56016,000
Median age today 2629
Peak year 19981992
Best rank 1,741st boys354th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,959th
First recorded 19851947
Girls / boys 0 / 569145 / 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 Tyreiks are over 26. That is 3 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tyreik and Tyrell.