Tiberius
Tiberius was given to 38 boys in 2025, #3,176 among boys’ names; 1,301 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,290 Americans named Tiberius and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tiberius by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tiberius mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tiberius is “a male given name from Latin of mostly historical use; a specific person so named.”
From Latin Tiberius, literally 'Of the Tiber', from Tiberis, the river Tiber. Also note Faliscan equivalent *Tiferios. The name is mistaken by some to be of Etruscan origin but note the borrowed variants, Thefarie (from Faliscan) and Teperi (from Latin).
/taɪˈbɪə̯.ɹi.əs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tiberius?
#3,176 among boys’ names, 2025
Tiberius fell from #1,522 in 2015 to #3,176 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 56.9 to 22.2 per million.
109 babies in 2015, the peak
Tiberius peaked in 2015, when 109 boys were given it, #1,522 among boys’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,176 | 22.2 |
| 2024 | 52 | #2,592 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,359 | 34.5 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,295 | 36.1 |
| 2021 | 77 | #1,956 | 44.0 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,164 | 37.7 |
| 2019 | 84 | #1,821 | 46.8 |
| 2018 | 93 | #1,705 | 51.2 |
| 2017 | 109 | #1,522 | 58.9 |
| 2016 | 91 | #1,720 | 48.0 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 109 | #1,522 | 56.9 |
| 2014 | 86 | #1,763 | 44.8 |
| 2013 | 74 | #1,912 | 39.1 |
| 2012 | 50 | #2,514 | 26.4 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,740 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 53 | #2,393 | 27.6 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,262 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #6,036 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,232 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,417 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #10,040 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #8,081 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,582 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,573 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,879 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #9,023 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,790 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,151 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,933 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #10,180 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,698 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,632 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tiberius a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tiberius has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tiberius: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tiberius, and how old are they?
1,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,301 Americans ever recorded as Tiberius. The median Tiberius alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 940 people named Tiberius (4 women and girls, 936 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 955 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 28 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 269 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 992 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,739 babies since 1880, Tiberius is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 48 babies (79%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tiberius
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tiberius and names like it
- Compare Tiberius and TyberiusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTiberius peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tiberius since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Tiberius: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Tiberius.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tiberius alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.