Tiger
Tiger was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,742 among boys’ names; 1,310 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,290 Americans named Tiger and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tiger by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tiger mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tiger is “a popular given name for a pet.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tiger?
#3,742 among boys’ names, 2025
Tiger rose from #3,764 in 2015 to #3,742 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.1 to 17.6 per million.
130 babies in 2010, the peak
Tiger peaked in 2010, when 130 boys were given it, #1,322 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,742 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,415 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 36 | #3,335 | 21.0 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,265 | 36.7 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,219 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 29 | #3,719 | 16.8 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,786 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,511 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,757 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,876 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,764 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,360 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,255 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,989 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,974 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 130 | #1,322 | 67.8 |
| 2009 | 40 | #2,981 | 20.2 |
| 2008 | 39 | #3,051 | 19.1 |
| 2007 | 31 | #3,502 | 14.9 |
| 2006 | 49 | #2,509 | 23.8 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,515 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,621 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,352 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 45 | #2,329 | 23.2 |
| 2001 | 42 | #2,379 | 21.6 |
| 2000 | 36 | #2,612 | 18.3 |
| 1999 | 35 | #2,550 | 18.2 |
| 1998 | 97 | #1,257 | 50.7 |
| 1997 | 66 | #1,564 | 35.0 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,806 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,087 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,824 | 5.2 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,348 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,196 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #8,027 | 2.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #8,034 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,235 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,683 | 3.2 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,602 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tiger a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,310 Americans recorded as Tiger, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 30 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tiger: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tiger, and how old are they?
1,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,310 Americans ever recorded as Tiger. The median Tiger alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,496 people named Tiger (202 women and girls, 1,294 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,086 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 66 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 766 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 446 |
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).
Where are babies named Tiger born?
The states with the most babies named Tiger are California, Texas and Florida, with 82% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 206 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 63 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 8 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Hawaii | 6 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Minnesota | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Tiger is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tiger is most over-represented in California: since 1962 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tiger with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,817 babies since 1880, Tiger is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 39 babies (77%), 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 Tiger
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 Tiger and names like it
- Compare Tiger and TygerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTiger peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tiger since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Tiger.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tiger alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.