girls:
17.3k births since 1928
#1133 (80th percentile)
boys:
600.3k births since 1880
#54 (99th percentile)
overall:
617.6k births since 1880
#95 (99th percentile)
The name Tyler is the #95 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 617,632 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #54 (98.8% percentile) for all time with 600,343 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,133 (80.2% percentile) for all time with 17,289 births since 1928.
Tyler has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1928 for girls). Birth data for Tyler is available in 129 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (129 years for boys and 68 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 Tyler has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 94.2% of babies named Tyler were boys.
For boys, Tyler reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 99.5% percentile (ranked #5) with 14,953 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 14,953 births per million (ranked 99.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Tyler ranks #174 for boys (81.0% percentile) with 1,127 births per million, which is 7.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tyler reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 74.0% percentile (ranked #226) with 600 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 600 births per million (ranked 74.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tyler ranks #824 for girls (13.0% percentile) with 73 births per million, which is 12.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tyler".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Tyler. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Tyler is pronounced as TAI-ler, which has 2 syllables.
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