Tyee — boys' name
318 babies named Tyee in U.S. Social Security records since 1976, with the highest year being 2005. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
54% of everyone ever named Tyee was born in this single decade.
24 babies were named Tyee in 2005 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tyee
The Social Security Administration has registered 318 babies named Tyee between 1976 and 2023, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tyee currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 24 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tyee performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 173 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tyee 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 Tyee in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tyee 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 318 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.
Tyee at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tyee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1976
- Peak year (2005)
- 24
- Annual births at peak — across 48 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
318 total births across 48 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2005 with 24 births in a single year.
Tyee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 173 births that decade — 54% of Tyee's all-time total
Tyee decade highlights
- Peak decade 173 births
- Runner-up 58 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Tyee's strongest decade
173 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 54% of all-time use.
Tyee by state
Where Tyee concentrates geographically — total births since 1976
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 1.6% |
5 of 318 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1976–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.