Tye
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #13,462 · #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
Given to boys 93.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1968 · 63 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,222since 1930
Tye over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,240 | 36 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,835 | 45 | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #2,346 | 59 |
| 2022 | — | #3,879 | 28 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,253 | 62 | |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #2,586 | 49 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #2,464 | 54 |
| 2018 | — | #2,748 | 44 | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #2,217 | 60 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #2,167 | 63 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #2,019 | 71 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #1,873 | 78 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #1,878 | 75 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 | #1,657 | 93 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #1,510 | 106 |
| 2010 | — | #1,492 | 109 | |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 | #1,353 | 127 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #1,284 | 135 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #1,139 | 157 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #1,054 | 170 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #1,005 | 169 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | #1,022 | 160 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | #1,111 | 138 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #1,228 | 111 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #1,208 | 111 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | #1,053 | 136 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | #1,259 | 98 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #1,231 | 99 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | #1,110 | 114 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #1,127 | 105 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #1,066 | 111 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | #1,231 | 88 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #1,358 | 71 |
| 1992 | — | #1,490 | 61 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,210 | 84 | |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #1,278 | 75 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | #1,082 | 94 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #1,189 | 72 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #1,106 | 75 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | #1,242 | 60 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | #1,033 | 79 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | #993 | 80 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 | #1,120 | 64 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #981 | 84 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #1,037 | 77 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #1,111 | 66 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | #1,077 | 68 |
| 1978 | — | #1,027 | 72 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,093 | 63 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,163 | 54 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,138 | 55 | |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 | #1,026 | 64 |
| 1973 | — | #1,054 | 59 | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | #984 | 68 |
| 1971 | — | #979 | 69 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,159 | 51 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,152 | 46 | |
| 1968 | — | #910 | 63 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,087 | 46 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,373 | 31 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,335 | 33 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,236 | 39 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,403 | 31 | |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 | #1,588 | 25 |
| 1961 | — | #1,731 | 22 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,772 | 21 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,759 | 21 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,265 | 13 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,274 | 13 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,168 | 14 | |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | #2,558 | 10 |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | #2,592 | 10 |
| 1953 | — | #2,709 | 9 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,662 | 9 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
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| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tye! It came in at #3,592, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1931–1946, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Tye
- 405 spots since 2024 (#2,835 → #3,240)
- 654 spots since 2020 (#2,586 → #3,240)
- 1,221 spots since 2015 (#2,019 → #3,240)
- Biggest jump: 180 spots in 1971 (#1,159 → #979)
- Biggest drop: 242 spots in 1969 (#910 → #1,152)
- Debuted 1930
- Peaked 1968 at #910 (63 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 54 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1971–1972
- Highest: 1 in 11,818 boys born in 2005 were named Tye (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #910 in 1968, was only 1 in 27,587 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.1% of all boys named Tye (1,414) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 6 | #3,592 (1930) | #3,592 |
| 1940s | 22 | #3,316 (1948) | #3,387 |
| 1950s | 111 | #1,759 (1959) | #2,576 |
| 1960s | 357 | #910 (1968) | #1,359 |
| 1970s | 623 | #979 (1971) | #1,070 |
| 1980s | 751 | #981 (1982) | #1,089 |
| 1990s | 906 | #1,066 (1995) | #1,236 |
| 2000s | 1,414 | #1,005 (2005) | #1,146 |
| 2010s | 753 | #1,492 (2010) | #2,003 |
| 2020s | 279 | #2,253 (2021) | #2,857 |
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.
Tye in 1982
Top girls' names in 1982
Top boys' names in 1982
More about 1982
girls
1,693,325 girls got a published name in 1982; 1 in 338,665 of them was named Tye, which outranked 14.7% of the 12,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,815 names at #10,517; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,814,447 boys got a published name in 1982; 1 in 21,601 of them was named Tye, which outranked 86.7% of the 7,367 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).