girls:
139 births since 1996
#5577 (2nd percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1900
#3570 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1900
#6578 (15th percentile)
The name Tully is the #6,578 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,162 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 15.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,570 (22.1% percentile) for all time with 1,023 births since 1900. For girls, it ranks #5,577 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 139 births since 1996.
Tully first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for boys and 1996 for girls). Birth data for Tully is available in 103 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (103 years for boys and 14 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 Tully has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 36.2% of babies named Tully were boys.
For boys, Tully reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #828) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 37 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Tully ranks #899 for boys (1.3% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 25.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tully reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #922) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 17 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Tully is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #922 (2.6% percentile) with 17 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tully".
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