Tiger

Last seen for girls in 2022 at #10,383 · #3,658 for boys in 2025, 30 births
Given to boys 95.3% of the time

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Peak · boys
1998 · 97 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,248
since 1962

Tiger over time

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Rank among boys' names. Tiger has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201962peak #1,246, 1998boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,65830
2024#4,32124
2023#3,29336
2022#10,3839#2,24364
2021#4,11825
2020#3,65329
2019#13,7996#3,71629
2018#12,4647#3,44632
2017#15,9025#3,67829
2016#3,77628
2015#3,68429
2014#3,29733
2013#3,18934
2012#3,89426
2011#14,8246#3,88526
2010#1,316130
2009#2,94640
2008#3,00539
2007#3,44431
2006#15,1526#2,47749
2005#13,0107#3,44728
2004#3,53426
2003#3,28028
2002#2,29545
2001#10,1029#2,34642
2000#11,8017#2,57836
1999#2,51035
1998#1,24697
1997#1,55066
1996#3,67818
1995#4,79112
1994#5,45210
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1991#6,5197
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First appearance
1962

The first year at least five boys were named Tiger! It came in at #3,305, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1963–1969, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Tiger
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 663 spots since 2024 (#4,321#3,658)
  • 5 spots since 2020 (#3,653#3,658)
  • 26 spots since 2015 (#3,684#3,658)
Rise & fade · boys
36 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1962
  • Peaked 1998 at #1,246 (97 births)
  • Births halved by 1999, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 14,759
  • Highest: 1 in 14,759 boys born in 2010 were named Tiger (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 56,936 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,246 in 1998, was only 1 in 19,705 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 31.7% of all boys named Tiger (396) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s7#3,305 (1962)#3,305
1970s6#4,230 (1970)#4,230
1980s10#6,315 (1984)#6,633
1990s257#1,246 (1998)#4,483
2000s364#2,295 (2002)#2,935
2010s396#1,316 (2010)#3,388
2020s208#2,243 (2022)#3,548

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Tiger in 1962

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#3,305
7 births · 1 in 295,539 boys

Top boys' names in 1962

  1. #1Michael85,059
  2. #2David81,337
  3. #3John78,427
  4. #4James72,555
  5. #5Robert70,199
  6. #6Mark53,520
  7. #7William44,853
  8. #8Richard39,422
  9. #9Thomas36,529
  10. #10Jeffrey33,537
  11. #3,305Tiger7
More about 1962

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2,068,772 boys got a published name in 1962; 1 in 295,539 of them was named Tiger, which outranked 28.6% of the 4,631 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Tiger
  1. #3,041Wyndell8
  2. #3,041Yosef8
  3. #3,041Zach8
  4. #3,305Tiger7
  5. #3,305Ace7
  6. #3,305Adel7
  7. #3,305Aidan7
  8. #3,640Abdon6
  9. #3,640Abdullah6
  10. #3,640Alcides6

Tied with 334 names at #3,305; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1961
Risers
  1. 490Ritchie#1,262#772
  2. 353King#1,349#996
  3. 338Arlie#1,322#984
  4. 250Robb#1,052#802
  5. 243Pernell#928#685
Fallers
  1. 351Mariano#928#1,279
  2. 349Michal#910#1,259
  3. 337Loran#958#1,295
  4. 292Sid#967#1,259
  5. 275Lorenza#940#1,215

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1962