Tyra
Tyra was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,449 among girls’ names; 14,769 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,100 Americans named Tyra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 25 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tyra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tyra mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tyra is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African American usage.”
Also “a female given name from Swedish.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tyra?
#4,449 among girls’ names, 2025
Tyra fell from #2,708 in 2015 to #4,449 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 37.0 to 19.9 per million.
943 babies in 1998, the peak
Tyra peaked in 1998, when 943 girls were given it, #320 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,449 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,376 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,853 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,958 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,293 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,250 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,167 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,047 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,661 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,825 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,708 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,556 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,210 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,629 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,214 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 106 | #1,911 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 146 | #1,555 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 186 | #1,330 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 286 | #950 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 439 | #660 | 0.23 |
| 2005 | 430 | #646 | 0.23 |
| 2004 | 382 | #704 | 0.21 |
| 2003 | 372 | #705 | 0.20 |
| 2002 | 372 | #677 | 0.21 |
| 2001 | 440 | #581 | 0.24 |
| 2000 | 635 | #445 | 0.35 |
| 1999 | 726 | #387 | 0.41 |
| 1998 | 943 | #320 | 0.53 |
| 1997 | 837 | #340 | 0.48 |
| 1996 | 604 | #421 | 0.34 |
| 1995 | 454 | #530 | 0.26 |
| 1994 | 327 | #657 | 0.18 |
| 1993 | 258 | #790 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 185 | #1,018 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 155 | #1,146 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 165 | #1,074 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 130 | #1,230 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 138 | #1,116 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 134 | #1,122 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 146 | #1,041 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 196 | #831 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 141 | #1,016 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 136 | #1,036 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 141 | #1,039 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 165 | #911 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 169 | #899 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 182 | #859 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 184 | #817 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 194 | #782 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 182 | #787 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 225 | #671 | 0.15 |
| 1974 | 213 | #692 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 205 | #711 | 0.14 |
| 1972 | 233 | #654 | 0.15 |
| 1971 | 296 | #589 | 0.18 |
| 1970 | 308 | #580 | 0.18 |
| 1969 | 258 | #620 | 0.15 |
| 1968 | 148 | #840 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 103 | #1,019 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 103 | #1,021 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 102 | #1,041 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 116 | #996 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 78 | #1,249 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 85 | #1,202 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 53 | #1,565 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 49 | #1,614 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 55 | #1,463 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,817 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,545 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 52 | #1,478 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 44 | #1,554 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,671 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,866 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,262 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,108 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,333 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,840 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,585 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,141 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,204 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,445 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,503 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,345 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,419 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #5,030 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,750 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,309 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,267 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,493 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,224 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,146 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tyra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tyra has been given almost only to girls: 143 boys in 92 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tyra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tyra, and how old are they?
14,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 14,769 Americans ever recorded as Tyra. The median Tyra alive today is 30 years old; half are between 25 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 12,317 people named Tyra (12,160 women and girls, 157 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,100 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 40 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 696 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,940 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,420 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 662 |
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 Tyra born?
The states with the most babies named Tyra are California, Texas and New York, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,004 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 945 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 714 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 699 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 674 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 674 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Ohio | 629 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 547 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 523 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 436 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Tyra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tyra is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1914 it was given 2.5 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 girls’ 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 Tyra 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,535 babies since 1880, Tyra is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 132 babies (24%), 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 Tyra
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 Tyra and names like it
- Compare Tyra and TiaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTyra peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tyra since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Tyra: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Tyra.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tyra alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.