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Tyrelle vs Tyrone

American parents have registered 80,146 Tyrones since 1880, against 841 Tyrelles. Tyrone is still ahead, with 132 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyrelle 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 2011, when Tyrelle had 19 and Tyrone had 272.

Side by side

  Tyrelle Tyrone
Total US births 84180,146
Most in one year 402,561
Babies in 2025 5132
Estimated living today 82067,000
Median age today 2751
Peak year 19951970
Best rank 2,140th boys132nd boys
Rank in 2025 12,008th1,388th
First recorded 19771914
Girls / boys 16 / 825709 / 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 Tyrelles are over 27. That is 24 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Tyrelle Tyrone
England and Wales 1341,594

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: Tyrelle and Tyrone.