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Tyler

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Tyler is ranked 191st among boys in 2024 (1,908 births). Its best rank was 5th, in 1993–1994.

Rank in 2024
#191down 14 from 2023
Births in 2024
1,9080.11% of boys
Peak year
199430,480 births
Best rank
#5first in 1993
Since 1880
619,711people given the name
Babies named Tyler, by year of birthboys
012.5k25k37.5k50k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

602,289 boys have been named Tyler in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1994, with 30,480 births — 1.6% of all boys recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 72 → 191).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 1990s alone account for 44%. It has spent 84 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 36 of them in the top 100 and 9 in the top 10.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 17,422 girls have also been given it, 2.8% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Tyler
1880s24
1890s26
1900s40
1910s203
1920s254
1930s234
1940s492
1950s1,133
1960s3,169
1970s11,544
1980s86,447
1990s262,308
2000s165,581
2010s59,349
2020s11,485

In 1994, its biggest year

Tyler was the 5th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1994 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1994.

Names that rose and fell with Tyler

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.