Tiller
Tiller was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,614 among boys’ names; 61 Americans have been recorded with it since 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tiller by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tiller?
#9,614 among boys’ names, 2025
Tiller entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #9,614 in 2025.
9 babies in 2020, the peak
Tiller peaked in 2020, when 9 boys were given it, #8,656 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,614 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #14,042 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,846 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,734 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,656 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,932 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,628 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #12,088 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,993 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tiller a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tiller has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tiller: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tiller, and how old are they?
An estimated 61 Americans named Tiller and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 101 people named Tiller (25 women and girls, 76 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 25 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.0 times 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Tiller?
Tiller is a less common spelling of Tyler: SSA has recorded 61 Tiller and 621,493 Tyler since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 622,615 babies since 1880, Tiller is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 1,742 babies (<1%), the second most given that year.
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 Tiller
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 Tiller and names like it
- Compare Tiller and TylerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTiller peaked in 2020.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Tiller.
- Names starting with TMost given first.