Tyler
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
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
By decade
| Decade | boys named Tyler | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 24 | |
| 1890s | 26 | |
| 1900s | 40 | |
| 1910s | 203 | |
| 1920s | 254 | |
| 1930s | 234 | |
| 1940s | 492 | |
| 1950s | 1,133 | |
| 1960s | 3,169 | |
| 1970s | 11,544 | |
| 1980s | 86,447 | |
| 1990s | 262,308 | |
| 2000s | 165,581 | |
| 2010s | 59,349 | |
| 2020s | 11,485 |
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.
- Zachariepeak 1994
- Zackerypeak 1994
- Jordonpeak 1991
- Devanpeak 1994
- Dejonpeak 1992
- Zacharypeak 1993
- Kodypeak 1993
- Schylerpeak 1992
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.