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Tyris vs Tyron

American parents have registered 7,686 Tyrons since 1880, against 663 Tyrises. Tyron is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyris 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 2015, when Tyris had 13 and Tyron had 46.

Side by side

  Tyris Tyron
Total US births 6637,686
Most in one year 28202
Babies in 2025 933
Estimated living today 6407,200
Median age today 2634
Peak year 20071990
Best rank 3,687th boys716th boys
Rank in 2025 8,243rd3,450th
First recorded 19631938
Girls / boys 0 / 66316 / 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 Tyrises are over 26. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tyris and Tyron.