Tyre
Tyre was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,151 among boys’ names; 2,169 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,990 Americans named Tyre and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tyre by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tyre mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tyre is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tyre?
#7,151 among boys’ names, 2025
Tyre fell from #5,723 in 2015 to #7,151 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 7.0 per million.
98 babies in 1999, the peak
Tyre peaked in 1999, when 98 boys were given it, #1,265 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,151 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,041 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,854 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,926 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,535 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,456 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 15 | #6,073 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 12 | #7,090 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,500 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,926 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,723 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,701 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 27 | #3,854 | 14.3 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,234 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,497 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,443 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 35 | #3,268 | 17.6 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,939 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 55 | #2,366 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,518 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 53 | #2,258 | 26.5 |
| 2004 | 39 | #2,733 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,173 | 25.8 |
| 2002 | 59 | #1,911 | 30.4 |
| 2001 | 62 | #1,811 | 31.9 |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,395 | 45.8 |
| 1999 | 98 | #1,265 | 51.0 |
| 1998 | 95 | #1,274 | 49.7 |
| 1997 | 58 | #1,702 | 30.8 |
| 1996 | 67 | #1,510 | 35.4 |
| 1995 | 86 | #1,262 | 45.2 |
| 1994 | 56 | #1,637 | 29.0 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,326 | 37.7 |
| 1992 | 84 | #1,232 | 42.1 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,329 | 35.6 |
| 1990 | 54 | #1,557 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 40 | #1,884 | 20.0 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,333 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 30 | #2,049 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 27 | #2,152 | 14.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,818 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 27 | #2,029 | 15.0 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,136 | 13.9 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,992 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 26 | #2,083 | 14.5 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,424 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 28 | #1,939 | 16.3 |
| 1978 | 22 | #2,200 | 13.4 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,654 | 10.3 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,323 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,633 | 10.2 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,270 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,205 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,411 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,353 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,810 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,993 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,516 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,395 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,267 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,585 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,613 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,638 | 3.3 |
| 1960 | 9 | #3,058 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,272 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,419 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,291 | 2.5 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,339 | 3.7 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,640 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,496 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,475 | 4.9 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,462 | 5.4 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,158 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,109 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,747 | 5.7 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,779 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,237 | 7.9 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,904 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,284 | 5.4 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,712 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,757 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,538 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,472 | 5.6 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,717 | 7.6 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,255 | 15.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tyre a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,169 Americans recorded as Tyre, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 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 Tyre: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tyre, and how old are they?
1,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 2,169 Americans ever recorded as Tyre. The median Tyre alive today is 29 years old; half are between 22 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,534 people named Tyre (114 women and girls, 1,420 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,951 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 51 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 175 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 730 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 833 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 199 |
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 Tyre born?
The states with the most babies named Tyre are Florida, North Carolina and Georgia, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 129 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 71 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 67 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 61 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 41 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 37 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 27 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Maryland | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Tyre is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tyre is most over-represented in Florida: since 1913 it was given 1.3 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 Tyre 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 20,500 babies since 1880, Tyre is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 178 babies (6.7%), the fourth 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 Tyre
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 Tyre and names like it
- Compare Tyre and TyreeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTyre peaked in 1999.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tyre since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Tyre.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tyre alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.