Tiras
Tiras was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 207 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 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 Tiras by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tiras?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,885, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1999, the peak
Tiras peaked in 1999, when 10 boys were given it, #6,478 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #13,885 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,487 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,702 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,899 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,863 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,611 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,508 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #12,063 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 5 | #14,297 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,396 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 8 | #9,681 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,327 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #13,039 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,749 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,985 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,418 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #9,030 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,478 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,211 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,061 | 4.2 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,456 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #7,104 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,872 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,728 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,249 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,435 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,199 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,475 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,991 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 7 | #5,008 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,883 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tiras a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tiras has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tiras: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tiras, and how old are they?
An estimated 200 Americans named Tiras and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 190 people named Tiras (5 women and girls, 185 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 192 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,779 babies since 1880, Tiras is the third most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 45 babies recorded by SSA was a Tiras (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 Tiras
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 Tiras and names like it
- Compare Tiras and TyrusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTiras peaked in 1999.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Tiras.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tiras alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.