Tyrek
Tyrek was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,417 among boys’ names; 2,185 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,140 Americans named Tyrek and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 21 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tyrek by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tyrek?
#6,417 among boys’ names, 2025
Tyrek fell from #5,490 in 2015 to #6,417 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 8.2 per million.
243 babies in 1998, the peak
Tyrek peaked in 1998, when 243 boys were given it, #693 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,417 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,793 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,855 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,445 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 19 | #5,090 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,431 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,377 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,297 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,501 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,608 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #5,490 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,850 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,742 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,520 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,978 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,724 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,796 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,940 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 58 | #2,278 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,099 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 67 | #1,914 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 84 | #1,578 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 110 | #1,289 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 87 | #1,469 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 133 | #1,081 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 179 | #881 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 240 | #700 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 243 | #693 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 116 | #1,092 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 86 | #1,289 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 38 | #2,170 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,173 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 41 | #1,998 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 43 | #1,906 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,285 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 29 | #2,426 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,601 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,144 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,323 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,675 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,484 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,864 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,703 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,457 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,778 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tyrek a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tyrek has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tyrek: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tyrek, and how old are they?
2,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,185 Americans ever recorded as Tyrek. The median Tyrek alive today is 26 years old; half are between 21 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,645 people named Tyrek (11 women and girls, 1,634 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,070 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 21 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 358 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 220 |
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 Tyrek born?
The states with the most babies named Tyrek are North Carolina, South Carolina and New York, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 179 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| South Carolina | 146 | not ranked | 5.0× |
| New York | 141 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 131 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Florida | 101 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 87 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 82 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 79 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Louisiana | 59 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Maryland | 50 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Tyrek is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tyrek is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1975 it was given 5.0 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 Tyrek 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 8,156 babies since 1880, Tyrek is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 65 babies (22%), 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 Tyrek
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 Tyrek and names like it
- Compare Tyrek and TyreekBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTyrek peaked in 1998.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tyrek since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Tyrek.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tyrek alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.