Tiger
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #10,383 · #3,658 for boys in 2025, 30 births
Given to boys 95.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 97 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,248since 1962
Tiger over time
Rank among boys' names. Tiger has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,658 | 30 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,321 | 24 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,293 | 36 | |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #2,243 | 64 |
| 2021 | — | #4,118 | 25 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,653 | 29 | |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #3,716 | 29 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | #3,446 | 32 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #3,678 | 29 |
| 2016 | — | #3,776 | 28 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,684 | 29 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,297 | 33 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,189 | 34 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,894 | 26 | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #3,885 | 26 |
| 2010 | — | #1,316 | 130 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,946 | 40 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,005 | 39 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,444 | 31 | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #2,477 | 49 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #3,447 | 28 |
| 2004 | — | #3,534 | 26 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,280 | 28 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,295 | 45 | |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #2,346 | 42 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #2,578 | 36 |
| 1999 | — | #2,510 | 35 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,246 | 97 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,550 | 66 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,678 | 18 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,791 | 12 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,452 | 10 | |
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| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
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| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tiger! It came in at #3,305, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1969, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Tiger is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Minnesota#632 · 1 in 4,618
- Washington#655 · 1 in 4,447
- California#671 · 1 in 5,994
- Pennsylvania#1,116 · 1 in 12,200
- New York#1,247 · 1 in 11,804
Best ever in a state: #197 in Hawaii, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | #632 | 6 | 1 in 4,618 |
| Washington | #655 | 8 | 1 in 4,447 |
| California | #671 | 39 | 1 in 5,994 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,116 | 5 | 1 in 12,200 |
| New York | #1,247 | 9 | 1 in 11,804 |
| Florida | #1,325 | 7 | 1 in 13,234 |
| Texas | #1,445 | 10 | 1 in 17,862 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Tiger
- 663 spots since 2024 (#4,321 → #3,658)
- 5 spots since 2020 (#3,653 → #3,658)
- 26 spots since 2015 (#3,684 → #3,658)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1998 at #1,246 (97 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,759 boys born in 2010 were named Tiger (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 56,936 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,246 in 1998, was only 1 in 19,705 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.7% of all boys named Tiger (396) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7 | #3,305 (1962) | #3,305 |
| 1970s | 6 | #4,230 (1970) | #4,230 |
| 1980s | 10 | #6,315 (1984) | #6,633 |
| 1990s | 257 | #1,246 (1998) | #4,483 |
| 2000s | 364 | #2,295 (2002) | #2,935 |
| 2010s | 396 | #1,316 (2010) | #3,388 |
| 2020s | 208 | #2,243 (2022) | #3,548 |
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.
Tiger in 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 14,759 of them was named Tiger, which outranked 90.8% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,309Ira131
- #1,309Keelan131
- #1,309Perry131
- #1,316Tiger130
- #1,316Atreyu130
- #1,316Braulio130
- #1,316Donnie130
- #1,323Avi129
- #1,323Cian129
- #1,323Clint129
Tied with 6 names at #1,316; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.