Ty
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #810 for boys in 2025, 306 births
Given to boys 98.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2005 · 2,451 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 47,607since 1915
Ty over time
Rank among boys' names. Ty has never cracked the top 100 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #810 | 306 |
| 2024 | — | #857 | 283 | |
| 2023 | — | #772 | 332 | |
| 2022 | — | #715 | 369 | |
| 2021 | — | #682 | 390 | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #650 | 411 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #608 | 449 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #582 | 472 |
| 2017 | — | #586 | 463 | |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | #541 | 538 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #483 | 618 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #425 | 721 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #388 | 768 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #346 | 890 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #319 | 994 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #265 | 1,298 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | #222 | 1,642 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #247 | 1,437 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #237 | 1,538 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | #210 | 1,798 |
| 2005 | #5,266 | 24 | #169 | 2,451 |
| 2004 | #4,492 | 30 | #181 | 2,199 |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | #193 | 1,936 |
| 2002 | #5,254 | 22 | #214 | 1,609 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #269 | 1,218 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | #259 | 1,295 |
| 1999 | #4,870 | 22 | #256 | 1,223 |
| 1998 | #4,492 | 24 | #262 | 1,138 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 | #228 | 1,358 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 | #242 | 1,220 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 | #279 | 985 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #318 | 813 |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 | #330 | 767 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | #345 | 693 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #385 | 587 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | #434 | 510 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | #508 | 353 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | #497 | 336 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | #504 | 315 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #447 | 377 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 | #452 | 361 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | #422 | 386 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 | #452 | 337 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | #433 | 373 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | #411 | 402 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | #412 | 394 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | #419 | 361 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #412 | 357 |
| 1977 | — | #400 | 382 | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #426 | 335 |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 | #438 | 323 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #417 | 351 |
| 1973 | — | #406 | 367 | |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | #383 | 423 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | #364 | 494 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | #385 | 437 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | #381 | 424 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | #362 | 456 |
| 1967 | #3,656 | 13 | #399 | 366 |
| 1966 | #4,198 | 10 | #421 | 327 |
| 1965 | — | #448 | 301 | |
| 1964 | #3,879 | 12 | #418 | 372 |
| 1963 | #4,896 | 8 | #415 | 373 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 | #423 | 357 |
| 1961 | #4,546 | 9 | #450 | 323 |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 | #495 | 254 |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | #568 | 188 |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 | #828 | 82 |
| 1957 | — | #944 | 64 | |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 | #833 | 80 |
| 1955 | — | #874 | 71 | |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | #1,112 | 45 |
| 1953 | — | #1,102 | 44 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,182 | 39 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,242 | 35 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,499 | 24 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,616 | 21 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,817 | 17 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,850 | 17 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,030 | 13 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,536 | 19 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,810 | 15 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,405 | 10 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,083 | 12 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,130 | 6 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
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| 1937 | — | #2,680 | 8 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
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| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,175 | 8 | |
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| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ty! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1922, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ty is popular in 1956
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#278 · 1 in 2,403
- Ohio#461 · 1 in 11,567
- Pennsylvania#558 · 1 in 20,517
- Texas#667 · 1 in 11,262
- California#696 · 1 in 18,639
Best ever in a state: #61 in North Dakota, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #278 | 5 | 1 in 2,403 |
| Ohio | #461 | 10 | 1 in 11,567 |
| Pennsylvania | #558 | 6 | 1 in 20,517 |
| Texas | #667 | 11 | 1 in 11,262 |
| California | #696 | 9 | 1 in 18,639 |
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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 Ty
- 47 spots since 2024 (#857 → #810)
- 160 spots since 2020 (#650 → #810)
- 327 spots since 2015 (#483 → #810)
- Biggest jump: 260 spots in 1959 (#828 → #568)
- Biggest drop: 111 spots in 1957 (#833 → #944)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2005 at #169 (2,451 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 71 yrs · run 1955–2025
- Highest: 1 in 815 boys born in 2005 were named Ty (0.12%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,582 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 36.0% of all boys named Ty (17,123) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 27 | #3,516 (1916) | #3,847 |
| 1920s | 13 | #3,175 (1923) | #3,731 |
| 1930s | 24 | #2,680 (1937) | #3,327 |
| 1940s | 135 | #1,536 (1945) | #2,184 |
| 1950s | 672 | #568 (1959) | #1,018 |
| 1960s | 3,553 | #362 (1968) | #421 |
| 1970s | 3,830 | #364 (1971) | #405 |
| 1980s | 3,634 | #411 (1981) | #454 |
| 1990s | 9,294 | #228 (1997) | #308 |
| 2000s | 17,123 | #169 (2005) | #220 |
| 2010s | 7,211 | #265 (2010) | #454 |
| 2020s | 2,091 | #650 (2020) | #748 |
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.
Ty in 1956
Top girls' names in 1956
Top boys' names in 1956
More about 1956
girls
2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 250,963 of them was named Ty, which outranked 35.2% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,115,302 boys got a published name in 1956; 1 in 26,441 of them was named Ty, which outranked 81.3% of the 4,455 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).