Tynan
Tynan was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,728 among boys’ names; 731 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tynan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tynan?
#13,728 among boys’ names, 2025
Tynan fell from #6,642 in 2015 to #13,728 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 2.9 per million.
38 babies in 1994, the peak
Tynan peaked in 1994, when 38 boys were given it, #2,172 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,728 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,833 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,207 | 5.8 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,620 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,944 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,685 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,558 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,642 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,593 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,919 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #12,173 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,546 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 19 | #5,029 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,731 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,229 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,627 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,280 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,307 | 15.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,443 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 33 | #2,985 | 16.7 |
| 2002 | 21 | #4,030 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,283 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,912 | 15.8 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,853 | 15.6 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,288 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 37 | #2,303 | 19.6 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,901 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,752 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,172 | 19.7 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,645 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,092 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,989 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 23 | #2,854 | 11.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,575 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,896 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,386 | 12.9 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,110 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,785 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,272 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,179 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,823 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,838 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tynan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tynan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tynan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tynan, and how old are they?
An estimated 711 Americans named Tynan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 725 people named Tynan (52 women and girls, 673 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 687 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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 9,309 babies since 1880, Tynan is the third most given (7.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 199 babies (2.5%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Tynan
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 Tynan and names like it
- Compare Tynan and TitanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTynan peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tynan since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Tynan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tynan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.