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 1995
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#380 · 1 in 2,777
- Washington#563 · 1 in 5,532
- Louisiana#591 · 1 in 4,537
- Indiana#628 · 1 in 7,620
- Pennsylvania#754 · 1 in 11,815
Best ever in a state: #140 in South Dakota, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #380 | 7 | 1 in 2,777 |
| Washington | #563 | 6 | 1 in 5,532 |
| Louisiana | #591 | 6 | 1 in 4,537 |
| Indiana | #628 | 5 | 1 in 7,620 |
| Pennsylvania | #754 | 6 | 1 in 11,815 |
| Texas | #775 | 16 | 1 in 9,569 |
| Michigan | #836 | 5 | 1 in 12,102 |
| Ohio | #846 | 5 | 1 in 14,381 |
| California | #1,421 | 9 | 1 in 28,897 |
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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 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 293,091 of them was named Tye, which outranked 25.2% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,514Zola7
- #10,514Zoraya7
- #10,514Zyaire7
- #11,783Tye6
- #11,783Aailyah6
- #11,783Aalliyah6
- #11,783Aanisah6
- #13,386Aailiyah5
- #13,386Aalia5
- #13,386Aalijah5
Tied with 1,602 names at #11,783; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 17,150 of them was named Tye, which outranked 89.7% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).