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Tyrell vs Tyrrell

American parents have registered 16,215 Tyrells since 1880, against 668 Tyrrells. Tyrell is still ahead, with 78 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyrell Tyrrell

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

Of the 75 years in which either name was published, Tyrell for 74 years and Tyrrell for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tyrell Tyrrell
Total US births 16,215668
Most in one year 67731
Babies in 2025 78under 5
Estimated living today 16,000640
Median age today 2931
Peak year 19921993
Best rank 354th boys2,399th boys
Rank in 2025 1,959thunranked
First recorded 19471940
Girls / boys 145 / 16,0700 / 668

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 Tyrrells alive today are over 31; half the Tyrells are over 29. That is 2 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 Tyrell Tyrrell
England and Wales 1,14554

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: Tyrell and Tyrrell.