Ty
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #810 for boys in 2025, 306 births
Given to boys 98.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2005 · 2,451 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 47,607since 1915
Ty over time
Rank among boys' names. Ty has never cracked the top 100 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 | #14,942 | 5 | #810 | 306 |
| 2024 | — | #857 | 283 | |
| 2023 | — | #772 | 332 | |
| 2022 | — | #715 | 369 | |
| 2021 | — | #682 | 390 | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #650 | 411 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #608 | 449 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #582 | 472 |
| 2017 | — | #586 | 463 | |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | #541 | 538 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #483 | 618 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #425 | 721 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #388 | 768 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #346 | 890 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #319 | 994 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #265 | 1,298 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | #222 | 1,642 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #247 | 1,437 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #237 | 1,538 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | #210 | 1,798 |
| 2005 | #5,266 | 24 | #169 | 2,451 |
| 2004 | #4,492 | 30 | #181 | 2,199 |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | #193 | 1,936 |
| 2002 | #5,254 | 22 | #214 | 1,609 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #269 | 1,218 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | #259 | 1,295 |
| 1999 | #4,870 | 22 | #256 | 1,223 |
| 1998 | #4,492 | 24 | #262 | 1,138 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 | #228 | 1,358 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 | #242 | 1,220 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 | #279 | 985 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #318 | 813 |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 | #330 | 767 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | #345 | 693 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #385 | 587 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | #434 | 510 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | #508 | 353 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | #497 | 336 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | #504 | 315 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #447 | 377 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 | #452 | 361 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | #422 | 386 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 | #452 | 337 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | #433 | 373 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | #411 | 402 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | #412 | 394 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | #419 | 361 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #412 | 357 |
| 1977 | — | #400 | 382 | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #426 | 335 |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 | #438 | 323 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #417 | 351 |
| 1973 | — | #406 | 367 | |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | #383 | 423 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | #364 | 494 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | #385 | 437 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | #381 | 424 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | #362 | 456 |
| 1967 | #3,656 | 13 | #399 | 366 |
| 1966 | #4,198 | 10 | #421 | 327 |
| 1965 | — | #448 | 301 | |
| 1964 | #3,879 | 12 | #418 | 372 |
| 1963 | #4,896 | 8 | #415 | 373 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 | #423 | 357 |
| 1961 | #4,546 | 9 | #450 | 323 |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 | #495 | 254 |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | #568 | 188 |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 | #828 | 82 |
| 1957 | — | #944 | 64 | |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 | #833 | 80 |
| 1955 | — | #874 | 71 | |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | #1,112 | 45 |
| 1953 | — | #1,102 | 44 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,182 | 39 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,242 | 35 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,499 | 24 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,616 | 21 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,817 | 17 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,850 | 17 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,030 | 13 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,536 | 19 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,810 | 15 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,405 | 10 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,083 | 12 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,130 | 6 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #2,680 | 8 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
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| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,175 | 8 | |
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| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ty! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1922, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ty
- 47 spots since 2024 (#857 → #810)
- 160 spots since 2020 (#650 → #810)
- 327 spots since 2015 (#483 → #810)
- Biggest jump: 260 spots in 1959 (#828 → #568)
- Biggest drop: 111 spots in 1957 (#833 → #944)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2005 at #169 (2,451 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 71 yrs · run 1955–2025
- Highest: 1 in 815 boys born in 2005 were named Ty (0.12%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,582 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 36.0% of all boys named Ty (17,123) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 27 | #3,516 (1916) | #3,847 |
| 1920s | 13 | #3,175 (1923) | #3,731 |
| 1930s | 24 | #2,680 (1937) | #3,327 |
| 1940s | 135 | #1,536 (1945) | #2,184 |
| 1950s | 672 | #568 (1959) | #1,018 |
| 1960s | 3,553 | #362 (1968) | #421 |
| 1970s | 3,830 | #364 (1971) | #405 |
| 1980s | 3,634 | #411 (1981) | #454 |
| 1990s | 9,294 | #228 (1997) | #308 |
| 2000s | 17,123 | #169 (2005) | #220 |
| 2010s | 7,211 | #265 (2010) | #454 |
| 2020s | 2,091 | #650 (2020) | #748 |
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.
Ty in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 189,855 of them was named Ty, which outranked 48.3% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,303Zita11
- #7,303Zonia11
- #7,303Zully11
- #7,880Ty10
- #7,880Aarin10
- #7,880Abbigayle10
- #7,880Abegail10
- #8,501Aarti9
- #8,501Abbagail9
- #8,501Abilene9
Tied with 620 names at #7,880; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 4,028 of them was named Ty, which outranked 95.4% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.