Tyran
Tyran was given to 10 boys in 2025, #8,197 among boys’ names; 2,335 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,220 Americans named Tyran and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tyran by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tyran?
#8,197 among boys’ names, 2025
Tyran fell from #3,505 in 2015 to #8,197 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.7 to 5.9 per million.
82 babies in 2000, the peak
Tyran peaked in 2000, when 82 boys were given it, #1,492 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #8,197 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,156 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,872 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,193 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,993 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,407 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,990 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,874 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,316 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,977 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,505 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 42 | #2,839 | 21.9 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,053 | 19.6 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,053 | 20.0 |
| 2011 | 49 | #2,543 | 25.8 |
| 2010 | 53 | #2,396 | 27.6 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,446 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,509 | 25.0 |
| 2007 | 57 | #2,300 | 27.5 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,172 | 29.2 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,231 | 27.0 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,203 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 47 | #2,303 | 23.8 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,675 | 18.5 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,041 | 26.8 |
| 2000 | 82 | #1,492 | 41.8 |
| 1999 | 73 | #1,541 | 38.0 |
| 1998 | 76 | #1,471 | 39.8 |
| 1997 | 64 | #1,594 | 33.9 |
| 1996 | 67 | #1,509 | 35.4 |
| 1995 | 67 | #1,461 | 35.2 |
| 1994 | 56 | #1,636 | 29.0 |
| 1993 | 36 | #2,202 | 18.4 |
| 1992 | 58 | #1,540 | 29.0 |
| 1991 | 38 | #2,008 | 18.8 |
| 1990 | 34 | #2,156 | 16.6 |
| 1989 | 37 | #1,986 | 18.5 |
| 1988 | 29 | #2,188 | 15.1 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,387 | 12.9 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,219 | 14.1 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,967 | 16.2 |
| 1984 | 25 | #2,155 | 13.9 |
| 1983 | 27 | #2,012 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,991 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,333 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,438 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 33 | #1,750 | 19.2 |
| 1978 | 66 | #1,078 | 40.2 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,264 | 12.8 |
| 1976 | 28 | #1,822 | 17.8 |
| 1975 | 31 | #1,656 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 23 | #1,975 | 14.6 |
| 1973 | 28 | #1,694 | 18.0 |
| 1972 | 27 | #1,717 | 16.7 |
| 1971 | 21 | #2,045 | 11.9 |
| 1970 | 17 | #2,285 | 9.1 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,299 | 8.4 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,727 | 6.3 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,596 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,232 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,229 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 6 | #4,011 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #4,018 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,495 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,330 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 6 | #4,015 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,238 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,909 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,131 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,932 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tyran a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,335 Americans recorded as Tyran, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 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 Tyran: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tyran, and how old are they?
2,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,335 Americans ever recorded as Tyran. The median Tyran alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,699 people named Tyran (117 women and girls, 1,582 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,147 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 69 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 361 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 576 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 888 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 329 |
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 Tyran born?
The states with the most babies named Tyran are Louisiana, Texas and Illinois, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 185 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| Texas | 86 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 61 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Mississippi | 17 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Tyran is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tyran is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1954 it was given 4.4 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 Tyran 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 15,704 babies since 1880, Tyran is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 113 babies (8.8%), 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 Tyran
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 Tyran and names like it
- Compare Tyran and TyronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTyran peaked in 2000.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tyran since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Tyran.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tyran alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.