Tira
Tira was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 979 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tira?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,461, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1971, the peak
Tira peaked in 1971, when 45 girls were given it, #1,934 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #17,461 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,355 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,364 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,718 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,605 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,364 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,330 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,838 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,836 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,842 | 6.0 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 8 | #12,327 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,184 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,051 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,989 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,198 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,987 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,212 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,488 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,706 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,964 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,236 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 13 | #7,037 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,948 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,273 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,506 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,480 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,756 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,569 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,324 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,200 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,869 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,764 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,140 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,208 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,233 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,503 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,359 | 15.0 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,721 | 19.8 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,058 | 29.5 |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,171 | 25.9 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,398 | 21.9 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,130 | 24.3 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,934 | 27.0 |
| 1970 | 42 | #2,013 | 24.0 |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,293 | 19.0 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,157 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,831 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,177 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,532 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,332 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,854 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,426 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,178 | 8.4 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,904 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,181 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,951 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,356 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,357 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tira, and how old are they?
An estimated 923 Americans named Tira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 34 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 881 people named Tira (846 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 934 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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 Tira?
Tira is a less common spelling of Tyra: SSA has recorded 979 Tira and 14,769 Tyra since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 64,298 babies since 1880, Tira is the seventh most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 170 babies recorded by SSA was a Tira (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Tira
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 Tira and names like it
- Compare Tira and TyraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTira peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tira since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Tira.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tira alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.