Tyger
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #15,539 · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 88.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1997 · 31 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 448since 1988
Tyger 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,243 | 9 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,832 | 12 | |
| 2023 | — | #10,821 | 6 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,147 | 14 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,562 | 16 | |
| 2020 | — | #8,067 | 9 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | — | #9,670 | 7 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,060 | 14 | |
| 2016 | — | #7,605 | 10 | |
| 2015 | — | #5,746 | 15 | |
| 2014 | — | #8,781 | 8 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,621 | 20 | |
| 2012 | — | #7,050 | 11 | |
| 2011 | — | #7,009 | 11 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,251 | 17 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,800 | 15 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,070 | 14 | |
| 2007 | — | #5,901 | 14 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,865 | 18 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,034 | 16 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,927 | 7 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,815 | 16 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,794 | 22 | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #4,302 | 18 |
| 2000 | — | #5,920 | 11 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,986 | 18 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,413 | 15 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,546 | 31 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,878 | 12 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,280 | 14 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
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| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
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| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tyger! It came in at #6,426, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1993, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Tyger
- 1,411 spots since 2024 (#6,832 → #8,243)
- 176 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #8,243)
- 2,497 spots since 2015 (#5,746 → #8,243)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 1997 at #2,546 (31 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 60,811 boys born in 1997 were named Tyger (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.7% of all boys named Tyger (151) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1987, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 6 | #6,426 (1988) | #6,426 |
| 1990s | 102 | #2,546 (1997) | #5,027 |
| 2000s | 151 | #3,794 (2002) | #5,543 |
| 2010s | 123 | #4,621 (2013) | #6,944 |
| 2020s | 66 | #5,562 (2021) | #7,612 |
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.
Tyger in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 319,047 of them was named Tyger, which outranked 24.4% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).