Ty
Ty was given to 306 boys in 2025, #813 among boys’ names; 48,344 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 46,000 Americans named Ty and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ty by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ty mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ty is “a diminutive of the male given name Tyrone, Tyler, Tyson, Tyron, and other male given names beginning with “Ty”.” Its etymology gives the sense “Ty” (with).
Clipping of Tyrone, Tyler, Tyson, Tyron, and other male given names beginning with “Ty”.
/taɪ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ty?
#813 among boys’ names, 2025
Ty fell from #483 in 2015 to #813 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.32 to 0.18 per 1,000.
2,475 babies in 2005, the peak
Ty peaked in 2005, when 2,475 babies were given it (2,451 boys, #169 among boys’ names). The 311 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 306 | #813 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 283 | #861 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 332 | #772 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 369 | #716 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 390 | #683 | 0.22 |
| 2020 | 411 | #652 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 449 | #609 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 472 | #582 | 0.26 |
| 2017 | 463 | #590 | 0.25 |
| 2016 | 538 | #541 | 0.28 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 618 | #483 | 0.32 |
| 2014 | 721 | #425 | 0.38 |
| 2013 | 768 | #388 | 0.41 |
| 2012 | 890 | #346 | 0.47 |
| 2011 | 994 | #319 | 0.52 |
| 2010 | 1,298 | #265 | 0.68 |
| 2009 | 1,642 | #222 | 0.83 |
| 2008 | 1,437 | #247 | 0.70 |
| 2007 | 1,538 | #237 | 0.74 |
| 2006 | 1,798 | #210 | 0.87 |
| 2005 | 2,451 | #169 | 1.2 |
| 2004 | 2,199 | #181 | 1.1 |
| 2003 | 1,936 | #193 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 1,609 | #214 | 0.83 |
| 2001 | 1,218 | #269 | 0.63 |
| 2000 | 1,295 | #259 | 0.66 |
| 1999 | 1,223 | #256 | 0.64 |
| 1998 | 1,138 | #262 | 0.60 |
| 1997 | 1,358 | #228 | 0.72 |
| 1996 | 1,220 | #242 | 0.64 |
| 1995 | 985 | #279 | 0.52 |
| 1994 | 813 | #318 | 0.42 |
| 1993 | 767 | #330 | 0.39 |
| 1992 | 693 | #345 | 0.35 |
| 1991 | 587 | #386 | 0.29 |
| 1990 | 510 | #433 | 0.25 |
| 1989 | 353 | #508 | 0.18 |
| 1988 | 336 | #499 | 0.18 |
| 1987 | 315 | #505 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 377 | #448 | 0.20 |
| 1985 | 361 | #452 | 0.20 |
| 1984 | 386 | #422 | 0.21 |
| 1983 | 337 | #452 | 0.19 |
| 1982 | 373 | #434 | 0.21 |
| 1981 | 402 | #413 | 0.22 |
| 1980 | 394 | #413 | 0.22 |
| 1979 | 361 | #420 | 0.21 |
| 1978 | 357 | #413 | 0.22 |
| 1977 | 382 | #400 | 0.23 |
| 1976 | 335 | #427 | 0.21 |
| 1975 | 323 | #441 | 0.21 |
| 1974 | 351 | #417 | 0.22 |
| 1973 | 367 | #406 | 0.24 |
| 1972 | 423 | #383 | 0.26 |
| 1971 | 494 | #365 | 0.28 |
| 1970 | 437 | #386 | 0.24 |
| 1969 | 424 | #381 | 0.24 |
| 1968 | 456 | #362 | 0.26 |
| 1967 | 366 | #400 | 0.21 |
| 1966 | 327 | #422 | 0.18 |
| 1965 | 301 | #448 | 0.16 |
| 1964 | 372 | #419 | 0.19 |
| 1963 | 373 | #415 | 0.18 |
| 1962 | 357 | #423 | 0.17 |
| 1961 | 323 | #451 | 0.15 |
| 1960 | 254 | #495 | 0.12 |
| 1959 | 188 | #568 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 82 | #831 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 64 | #955 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 80 | #838 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 71 | #883 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 45 | #1,120 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 44 | #1,119 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 39 | #1,190 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,258 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,532 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 21 | #1,665 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 17 | #1,879 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 17 | #1,911 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,136 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,574 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,883 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,550 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,005 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,199 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,438 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,932 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,893 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,518 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,504 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,447 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,927 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,124 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,756 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,537 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,848 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,343 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ty a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 48,344 Americans recorded as Ty, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 306 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ty: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ty, and how old are they?
46,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 48,344 Americans ever recorded as Ty. The median Ty alive today is 24 years old; half are between 18 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 47,425 people named Ty (1,831 women and girls, 45,594 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 44,690 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 29 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,870 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,490 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,610 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 23,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,130 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Ty born?
The states with the most babies named Ty are Texas, California and Pennsylvania, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 39 | #720 | 1.2× |
| California | 24 | #954 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #657 | 0.9× |
| Utah | 13 | #376 | 2.4× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,187 | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 10 | #596 | 1.1× |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #458 | 1.8× |
| Arizona | 10 | #669 | 1.1× |
| Iowa | 10 | #376 | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 9 | #932 | 1.1× |
Where Ty is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ty is most over-represented in Montana: since 1915 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ty with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 54,311 babies since 1880, Ty is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 311 of their 347 babies (90%), 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 Ty
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 Ty and names like it
- Compare Ty and TyeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTy peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ty since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Ty.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ty alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.