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Tyrik vs Tyron

American parents have registered 7,686 Tyrons since 1880, against 1,396 Tyriks. Tyron is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tyrik against Tyron, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tyrik Tyron

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

Tyron has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1938 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1998, when Tyrik had 162 and Tyron had 168.

Side by side

  Tyrik Tyron
Total US births 1,3967,686
Most in one year 162202
Babies in 2025 1133
Estimated living today 1,4007,200
Median age today 2634
Peak year 19981990
Best rank 895th boys716th boys
Rank in 2025 7,194th3,450th
First recorded 19741938
Girls / boys 0 / 1,39616 / 7,670

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 Tyrons alive today are over 34; half the Tyriks are over 26. That is 8 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 Tyrik Tyron
England and Wales 18351

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: Tyrik and Tyron.