Tipton — boys' name
256 babies named Tipton in U.S. Social Security records since 1917, with the highest year being 2016. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Tipton was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Tipton in 2016 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tipton
The Social Security Administration has registered 256 babies named Tipton between 1917 and 2023, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tipton currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tipton performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 79 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Tipton shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tipton in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 256 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Tipton at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tipton popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1917
- Peak year (2016)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 107 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
256 total births across 107 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2016 with 16 births in a single year.
Tipton popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 2009 (Tipton as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Tipton accounts for 2% of total recorded use across both genders.
Tipton by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 79 births that decade — 31% of Tipton's all-time total
Tipton decade highlights
- Peak decade 79 births
- Runner-up 40 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Tipton's strongest decade
79 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1917–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.