Tyra
#4,352 for girls in 2025, 32 births · Last seen for boys in 1997 at #8,110
Given to girls 99.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 943 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,626since 1914
Tyra over time
Rank among girls' names. Tyra has never cracked the top 300 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 | #4,352 | 32 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,294 | 33 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,746 | 28 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,893 | 38 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,250 | 49 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,130 | 51 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,004 | 54 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,635 | 66 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,798 | 61 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,685 | 66 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,535 | 70 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,187 | 85 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,597 | 69 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,190 | 86 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,897 | 106 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,546 | 146 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,325 | 186 | — | |
| 2007 | #947 | 286 | — | |
| 2006 | #659 | 439 | — | |
| 2005 | #645 | 430 | — | |
| 2004 | #701 | 382 | — | |
| 2003 | #705 | 372 | — | |
| 2002 | #675 | 372 | — | |
| 2001 | #580 | 440 | — | |
| 2000 | #445 | 635 | — | |
| 1999 | #387 | 726 | — | |
| 1998 | #319 | 943 | — | |
| 1997 | #340 | 837 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #421 | 604 | — | |
| 1995 | #530 | 454 | — | |
| 1994 | #655 | 327 | — | |
| 1993 | #791 | 258 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,016 | 185 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,144 | 155 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,072 | 165 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,231 | 130 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,116 | 138 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,115 | 134 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,032 | 146 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #829 | 196 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #1,011 | 141 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #1,030 | 136 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #1,032 | 141 | — | |
| 1981 | #906 | 165 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #898 | 169 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #854 | 182 | — | |
| 1978 | #811 | 184 | — | |
| 1977 | #779 | 194 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #785 | 182 | — | |
| 1975 | #671 | 225 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #690 | 213 | — | |
| 1973 | #711 | 205 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #654 | 233 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #588 | 296 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #577 | 308 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #618 | 258 | — | |
| 1968 | #837 | 148 | #3,107 | 8 |
| 1967 | #1,011 | 103 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,017 | 103 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,032 | 102 | — | |
| 1964 | #990 | 116 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #1,241 | 78 | #2,539 | 11 |
| 1962 | #1,192 | 85 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #1,553 | 53 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,597 | 49 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #1,450 | 55 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,791 | 37 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,531 | 49 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,470 | 52 | #3,942 | 5 |
| 1955 | #1,537 | 44 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,648 | 38 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,834 | 30 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,200 | 22 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,064 | 23 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,253 | 19 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,807 | 28 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,491 | 16 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,089 | 22 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,034 | 11 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,339 | 14 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,401 | 14 | #3,109 | 6 |
| 1943 | #2,251 | 16 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | #3,194 | 9 | — | |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 | — | |
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| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 | — | |
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| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 | — | |
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| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
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| 1918 | #3,244 | 9 | — | |
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| 1915 | #3,795 | 6 | — | |
| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tyra! It came in at #3,618, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1917, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Tyra is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#436 · 1 in 1,783
- South Carolina#677 · 1 in 3,200
- Louisiana#806 · 1 in 4,045
- Florida#900 · 1 in 5,380
- Pennsylvania#985 · 1 in 6,918
Best ever in a state: #61 in Hawaii, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #436 | 7 | 1 in 1,783 |
| South Carolina | #677 | 6 | 1 in 3,200 |
| Louisiana | #806 | 5 | 1 in 4,045 |
| Florida | #900 | 16 | 1 in 5,380 |
| Pennsylvania | #985 | 8 | 1 in 6,918 |
| Virginia | #1,038 | 6 | 1 in 6,270 |
| Georgia | #1,096 | 8 | 1 in 6,602 |
| Ohio | #1,111 | 7 | 1 in 8,056 |
| Illinois | #1,130 | 9 | 1 in 7,358 |
| New York | #1,202 | 12 | 1 in 7,961 |
| Michigan | #1,255 | 5 | 1 in 8,892 |
| California | #1,833 | 14 | 1 in 16,382 |
| Texas | #2,128 | 9 | 1 in 18,635 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Tyra
- 58 spots since 2024 (#4,294 → #4,352)
- 183 spots since 2020 (#4,169 → #4,352)
- 1,667 spots since 2015 (#2,685 → #4,352)
- Biggest jump: 251 spots in 1964 (#1,241 → #990)
- Biggest drop: 378 spots in 2008 (#947 → #1,325)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1998 at #319 (943 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1993–2007
- Highest: 1 in 1,874 girls born in 1998 were named Tyra (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 50,227 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.8% of all girls named Tyra (4,654) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 20 | #3,244 (1918) | #3,552 |
| 1920s | 7 | #3,873 (1926) | #3,873 |
| 1930s | 13 | #3,429 (1939) | #3,638 |
| 1940s | 135 | #1,807 (1949) | #2,670 |
| 1950s | 369 | #1,450 (1959) | #1,778 |
| 1960s | 1,095 | #618 (1969) | #1,109 |
| 1970s | 2,222 | #577 (1970) | #712 |
| 1980s | 1,496 | #829 (1985) | #1,020 |
| 1990s | 4,654 | #319 (1998) | #668 |
| 2000s | 3,688 | #445 (2000) | #823 |
| 2010s | 714 | #1,897 (2010) | #2,566 |
| 2020s | 213 | #3,250 (2021) | #4,117 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tyra in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 10,166 of them was named Tyra, which outranked 93.5% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,320Mackenna187
- #1,320Star187
- #1,320Zahra187
- #1,325Tyra186
- #1,325Allyssa186
- #1,325Kamiya186
- #1,325Marcella186
- #1,331Elliot185
- #1,331Keily185
- #1,331Kimber185
Tied with 5 names at #1,325; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.