Tye
Tye is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 45 births. Its best rank was 917th, in 1968.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 450.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2006170 births
- Best rank
- #917in 1968
- Since 1930
- 5,544people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,186 boys have been named Tye in the United States since 1930, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 170 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 2000s alone account for 27%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 358 girls have also been given it, 6.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2006, its biggest year
Tye was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2006 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Ethan and Matthew. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Tye
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Christoferpeak 2007
- Marcopeak 2005
- Rajanpeak 2007
- Fernandopeak 2006
- Aundrepeak 2008
- Javierpeak 2001
- Neftalipeak 2003
- Marcospeak 2001
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.