Tye
Tye was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,305 among boys’ names; 5,580 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,280 Americans named Tye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tye?
#3,305 among boys’ names, 2025
Tye fell from #2,034 in 2015 to #3,305 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 37.0 to 21.1 per million.
179 babies in 2005, the peak
Tye peaked in 2005, when 179 babies were given it (169 boys, #1,007 among boys’ names). The 36 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,305 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 45 | #2,867 | 26.1 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,360 | 34.5 |
| 2022 | 28 | #3,980 | 16.0 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,271 | 35.4 |
| 2020 | 49 | #2,613 | 28.4 |
| 2019 | 54 | #2,482 | 30.1 |
| 2018 | 44 | #2,789 | 24.2 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,237 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,183 | 33.2 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,034 | 37.0 |
| 2014 | 78 | #1,881 | 40.6 |
| 2013 | 75 | #1,897 | 39.6 |
| 2012 | 93 | #1,665 | 49.0 |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,515 | 55.8 |
| 2010 | 109 | #1,501 | 56.8 |
| 2009 | 127 | #1,359 | 64.0 |
| 2008 | 135 | #1,293 | 66.2 |
| 2007 | 157 | #1,143 | 75.6 |
| 2006 | 170 | #1,057 | 82.7 |
| 2005 | 169 | #1,007 | 84.6 |
| 2004 | 160 | #1,027 | 80.6 |
| 2003 | 138 | #1,117 | 69.9 |
| 2002 | 111 | #1,232 | 57.2 |
| 2001 | 111 | #1,213 | 57.1 |
| 2000 | 136 | #1,057 | 69.2 |
| 1999 | 98 | #1,264 | 51.0 |
| 1998 | 99 | #1,233 | 51.8 |
| 1997 | 114 | #1,112 | 60.5 |
| 1996 | 105 | #1,136 | 55.4 |
| 1995 | 111 | #1,065 | 58.3 |
| 1994 | 88 | #1,238 | 45.5 |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,373 | 36.2 |
| 1992 | 61 | #1,498 | 30.5 |
| 1991 | 84 | #1,207 | 41.6 |
| 1990 | 75 | #1,281 | 36.5 |
| 1989 | 94 | #1,089 | 47.0 |
| 1988 | 72 | #1,197 | 37.6 |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,112 | 40.2 |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,252 | 32.6 |
| 1985 | 79 | #1,041 | 42.7 |
| 1984 | 80 | #998 | 44.3 |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,128 | 35.7 |
| 1982 | 84 | #989 | 46.3 |
| 1981 | 77 | #1,042 | 43.0 |
| 1980 | 66 | #1,124 | 37.0 |
| 1979 | 68 | #1,088 | 39.5 |
| 1978 | 72 | #1,033 | 43.9 |
| 1977 | 63 | #1,098 | 38.3 |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,178 | 34.4 |
| 1975 | 55 | #1,144 | 35.2 |
| 1974 | 64 | #1,033 | 40.7 |
| 1973 | 59 | #1,066 | 37.9 |
| 1972 | 68 | #987 | 41.9 |
| 1971 | 69 | #984 | 39.0 |
| 1970 | 51 | #1,167 | 27.4 |
| 1969 | 46 | #1,166 | 25.7 |
| 1968 | 63 | #917 | 36.2 |
| 1967 | 46 | #1,100 | 26.4 |
| 1966 | 31 | #1,396 | 17.4 |
| 1965 | 33 | #1,358 | 17.7 |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,260 | 19.6 |
| 1963 | 31 | #1,422 | 15.3 |
| 1962 | 25 | #1,620 | 12.1 |
| 1961 | 22 | #1,772 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 21 | #1,807 | 9.8 |
| 1959 | 21 | #1,800 | 9.8 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,362 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,366 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,254 | 6.6 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,745 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,727 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,890 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,350 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,836 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,154 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,639 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,705 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,983 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,743 | 3.7 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,966 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,580 Americans recorded as Tye, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 36 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tye, and how old are they?
5,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 5,580 Americans ever recorded as Tye. The median Tye alive today is 27 years old; half are between 18 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 5,259 people named Tye (501 women and girls, 4,758 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,087 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 205 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 837 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,330 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 770 |
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 Tye born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,063 | 1.2× |
Where Tye is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tye is most over-represented in Texas: since 1930 it was given 1.2 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 Tye 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, Tye is the second most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 347 babies (10%), again the second 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 Tye
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 Tye and names like it
- Compare Tye and TyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTye peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tye since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Tye.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tye alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.