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Tyreik vs Tyrone

American parents have registered 80,146 Tyrones since 1880, against 569 Tyreiks. Tyrone is still ahead, with 132 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyreik 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 1998, when Tyreik had 58 and Tyrone had 614.

Side by side

  Tyreik Tyrone
Total US births 56980,146
Most in one year 582,561
Babies in 2025 under 5132
Estimated living today 56067,000
Median age today 2651
Peak year 19981970
Best rank 1,741st boys132nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,388th
First recorded 19851914
Girls / boys 0 / 569709 / 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 Tyreiks are over 26. That is 25 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 Tyrone.