Tyrique

Where Tyrique comes from

Tyrique 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. 1982
    First appearance
    #5,619 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1997
    Tyrique Jones born
    American basketball player
  3. 1998
    Peak, #755
    212 babies named Tyrique — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2001
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,415.
  5. 2006
    Tyrique George born
    English footballer
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Tyrique George · English footballer, born 2006
  • Tyrique Jones · American basketball player, born 1997
  • Tyrique Mercera · Curaçaoan footballer, born 2003
  • Tyrique Stevenson · American football player, born 2000
  • Tyrique Lake · Anguillan footballer, born 1999

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.