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Tyresha vs Tyrone

American parents have registered 80,146 Tyrones since 1880, against 607 Tyreshas. Tyrone is still ahead, with 132 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyresha 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 1993, when Tyresha had 49 and Tyrone had 900.

Side by side

  Tyresha Tyrone
Total US births 60780,146
Most in one year 492,561
Babies in 2025 under 5132
Estimated living today 59067,000
Median age today 3251
Peak year 19931970
Best rank 2,533rd girls132nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,388th
First recorded 19761914
Girls / boys 607 / 0709 / 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 Tyreshas are over 32. That is 19 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: Tyresha and Tyrone.