Tye

Where Tye comes from

Tye hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1930
    First appearance
    #3,592 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1968
    Peak, #910
    63 babies named Tye — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1990
    Tye McGinn born
    Canadian ice hockey player
  4. 1996
    Tye Sheridan born
    American actor
  5. 2022
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,879.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tye Sheridan · American actor, born 1996
  • Tye McGinn · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1990
  • Tye Fields · American basketball player, born 1975
  • Tye Harvey · American pole vaulter, born 1974
  • Tye Smith · American football player, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.