Tyan — boys' name

What the Data Says About Tyan

The Social Security Administration has registered 222 babies named Tyan between 1978 and 2020, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tyan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Tyan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 68 additional births since 1971.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tyan performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 80 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Tyan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tyan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tyan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 222 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.