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Tyron vs Tyrrell

American parents have registered 7,686 Tyrons since 1880, against 668 Tyrrells. Tyron is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tyron 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

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 1940, when Tyron had 9 and Tyrrell had 5.

Side by side

  Tyron Tyrrell
Total US births 7,686668
Most in one year 20231
Babies in 2025 33under 5
Estimated living today 7,200640
Median age today 3431
Peak year 19901993
Best rank 716th boys2,399th boys
Rank in 2025 3,450thunranked
First recorded 19381940
Girls / boys 16 / 7,6700 / 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 Tyrons alive today are over 34; half the Tyrrells are over 31. That is 3 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 Tyron Tyrrell
England and Wales 35154

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: Tyron and Tyrrell.