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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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.
Where Tye is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#348 · 1 in 3,622
- Ohio#615 · 1 in 12,845
- Texas#770 · 1 in 11,512
- California#1,333 · 1 in 33,785
Best ever in a state: #140 in South Dakota, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oregon | #348 | 5 | 1 in 3,622 |
| Ohio | #615 | 6 | 1 in 12,845 |
| Texas | #770 | 10 | 1 in 11,512 |
| California | #1,333 | 5 | 1 in 33,785 |
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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 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 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 22,803 of them was named Tye, which outranked 84.8% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,011Mariano73
- #1,011Mohammed73
- #1,011Prince73
- #1,027Tye72
- #1,027Alexandro72
- #1,027Baron72
- #1,027Deron72
- #1,034Carter71
- #1,034Heather71
- #1,034Kedrick71
Tied with 6 names at #1,027; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.