girls:
731 births since 1954
#4985 (13th percentile)
boys:
47k births since 1915
#523 (89th percentile)
overall:
47.7k births since 1915
#1110 (86th percentile)
The name Ty is the #1,110 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 47,735 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 85.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #523 (88.6% percentile) for all time with 47,004 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #4,985 (12.8% percentile) for all time with 731 births since 1954.
Ty first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1954 for girls). Birth data for Ty is available in 95 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (95 years for boys and 61 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 Ty has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ty reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 81.0% percentile (ranked #167) with 1,152 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 1,152 births per million (ranked 81.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ty ranks #602 for boys (34.0% percentile) with 181 births per million, which is 15.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ty reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #912) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ty".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Ty is pronounced as tai, which has 1 syllables.
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