Tully
Tully is given to both girls and boys: 21 girls and 14 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,895 among girls’ names and #6,414 among boys’, #7,253 among all names counting both); 1,244 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tully by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tully mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tully is “a male given name.”
A shortened Anglicization of Scottish Gaelic Ó Taithligh and Ó Maol Tuile.
A variant of Tolley and Tullie.
/ˈtʌliː/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tully?
#6,414 among boys’ names, 2025
Tully rose from #9,487 in 2015 to #6,414 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 8.2 per million.
49 babies in 2023, the peak
Tully peaked in 2023, when 49 babies were given it (18 boys, #5,441 among boys’ names). The 35 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 71% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,895 | 14 | #6,414 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,955 | 7 | #10,830 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,554 | 18 | #5,441 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,778 | 12 | #7,215 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,663 | 19 | #5,088 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,953 | 17 | #5,430 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,418 | 12 | #7,135 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,535 | 6 | #12,018 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 12 | #7,060 | |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,220 | 16 | #5,769 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 8 | #9,487 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 9 | #8,723 | |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,383 | 7 | #10,636 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,341 | 9 | #8,807 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 10 | #8,017 | |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,839 | 18 | #5,229 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 10 | #8,257 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 17 | #5,466 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,356 | 14 | #6,240 |
| 2006 | 6 | #17,001 | 8 | #9,509 |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,005 | 12 | #6,599 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 24 | #3,847 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #12,634 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 5 | #12,354 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #12,189 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 11 | #6,005 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 16 | #4,393 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 12 | #5,259 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,420 | 13 | #4,850 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 13 | #4,761 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 9 | #6,323 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 10 | #5,739 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 12 | #4,839 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #6,475 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 12 | #4,648 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 7 | #6,872 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 11 | #4,422 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 14 | #3,498 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 12 | #3,862 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 11 | #4,029 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #7,268 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #5,442 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,586 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 9 | #4,476 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #6,193 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 8 | #4,819 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 9 | #4,140 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,805 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 17 | #2,588 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 13 | #3,068 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 13 | #2,931 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 11 | #3,204 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 13 | #2,812 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 12 | #2,963 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 11 | #3,057 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 12 | #2,676 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 13 | #2,437 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 5 | #4,511 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,923 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 12 | #2,465 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 13 | #2,398 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 11 | #2,660 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 11 | #2,662 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 15 | #2,232 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 12 | #2,527 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 8 | #3,271 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 7 | #3,541 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 9 | #3,010 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 8 | #3,194 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 8 | #3,186 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 12 | #2,433 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 7 | #3,349 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 8 | #3,049 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 8 | #3,003 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 9 | #2,772 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 11 | #2,395 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 6 | #3,303 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #4,004 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 6 | #3,474 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 7 | #3,113 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 7 | #3,087 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 11 | #2,315 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 5 | #3,976 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 9 | #2,610 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 5 | #4,107 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 7 | #3,254 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 10 | #2,527 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 9 | #2,829 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 10 | #2,767 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 9 | #2,958 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 6 | #4,179 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 10 | #2,892 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 11 | #2,740 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 10 | #3,008 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,832 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 14 | #2,334 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 5 | #4,920 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 9 | #3,101 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 8 | #3,349 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 6 | #3,933 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 9 | #2,908 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 8 | #3,049 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 9 | #2,436 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 6 | #2,782 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 6 | #1,292 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Tully a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,244 Americans recorded as Tully, 16% are girls and 84% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tully: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tully, and how old are they?
An estimated 952 Americans named Tully and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 7 and 50. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 841 people named Tully (156 women and girls, 685 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 777 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above 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 1,688 babies since 1880, Tully is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 35 babies (100%), 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 Tully
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.
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