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
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 97 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,248since 1962
Tiger over time
Rank among boys' names. Tiger has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,658 | 30 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,321 | 24 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,293 | 36 | |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #2,243 | 64 |
| 2021 | — | #4,118 | 25 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,653 | 29 | |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #3,716 | 29 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | #3,446 | 32 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #3,678 | 29 |
| 2016 | — | #3,776 | 28 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,684 | 29 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,297 | 33 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,189 | 34 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,894 | 26 | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #3,885 | 26 |
| 2010 | — | #1,316 | 130 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,946 | 40 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,005 | 39 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,444 | 31 | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #2,477 | 49 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #3,447 | 28 |
| 2004 | — | #3,534 | 26 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,280 | 28 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,295 | 45 | |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #2,346 | 42 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #2,578 | 36 |
| 1999 | — | #2,510 | 35 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,246 | 97 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,550 | 66 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,678 | 18 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,791 | 12 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,452 | 10 | |
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| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
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| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
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| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
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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
- 663 spots since 2024 (#4,321 → #3,658)
- 5 spots since 2020 (#3,653 → #3,658)
- 26 spots since 2015 (#3,684 → #3,658)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1998 at #1,246 (97 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 31.7% of all boys named Tiger (396) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7 | #3,305 (1962) | #3,305 |
| 1970s | 6 | #4,230 (1970) | #4,230 |
| 1980s | 10 | #6,315 (1984) | #6,633 |
| 1990s | 257 | #1,246 (1998) | #4,483 |
| 2000s | 364 | #2,295 (2002) | #2,935 |
| 2010s | 396 | #1,316 (2010) | #3,388 |
| 2020s | 208 | #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 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 316,868 of them was named Tiger, which outranked 24.5% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #13,606Zunaira7
- #13,606Zuriah7
- #13,606Zyanah7
- #15,152Tiger6
- #15,152Aaisha6
- #15,152Aalivia6
- #15,152Aaliyan6
- #17,168Aadi5
- #17,168Aailyah5
- #17,168Aalanah5
Tied with 2,015 names at #15,152; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 41,944 of them was named Tiger, which outranked 82.4% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,449Yechiel50
- #2,449Zacary50
- #2,449Zyler50
- #2,477Tiger49
- #2,477Abimael49
- #2,477Aidin49
- #2,477Ansel49
- #2,513Adarius48
- #2,513Andi48
- #2,513Arin48
Tied with 35 names at #2,477; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.