Tyan
Tyan was last recorded in 2020, when 6 babies were given it; 290 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tyan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tyan is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tyan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,902, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1982, the peak
Tyan peaked in 1982, when 15 babies were given it (7 boys, #5,588 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | under 5 | 6 | #11,902 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #12,116 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 7 | #10,540 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 6 | #12,164 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 7 | #10,693 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #14,103 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 10 | #8,258 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 6 | #12,243 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 7 | #10,573 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 7 | #10,067 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | under 5 | 10 | #7,485 | |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,269 | 5 | #12,637 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 10 | #6,996 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 9 | #7,471 | |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,910 | 6 | #10,264 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #9,186 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,742 | 8 | #7,088 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #9,721 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #9,397 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 11 | #4,423 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 8 | #5,420 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 7 | #5,891 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 10 | #4,308 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 9 | #4,530 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 11 | #3,863 | |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,184 | 7 | #5,588 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 9 | #4,478 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 8 | #4,910 | |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,153 | 6 | #6,009 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,396 | 5 | #6,702 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,111 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,537 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,163 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,398 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,573 | under 5 |
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 Tyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 290 Americans recorded as Tyan, 23% are girls and 77% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tyan, and how old are they?
An estimated 279 Americans named Tyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 22 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 358 people named Tyan (152 women and girls, 206 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 278 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,544 babies since 1880, Tyan is the eighth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 215 babies recorded by SSA was a Tyan (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.
More about Tyan and names like it
- Compare Tyan and TitanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTyan peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tyan since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Tyan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tyan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.