girls:
62 births since 2000
#5654 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1962
#3416 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1962
#6488 (16th percentile)
The name Tiger is the #6,488 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,253 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 16.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,416 (25.5% percentile) for all time with 1,191 births since 1962. For girls, it ranks #5,654 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 62 births since 2000.
Tiger first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (1962 for boys and 2000 for girls). Birth data for Tiger is available in 37 out of the 62 years between 1962 and 2023 (37 years for boys and 9 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tiger has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tiger reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 14.2% percentile (ranked #755) with 63 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 63 births per million (ranked 14.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Tiger ranks #882 for boys (3.2% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 29.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tiger reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #894) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tiger".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Tiger. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Tiger is pronounced as TAI-ger, which has 2 syllables.
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