girls:
14.6k births since 1914
#1276 (78th percentile)
boys:
143 births since 1921
#4443 (3rd percentile)
overall:
14.7k births since 1914
#2167 (72nd percentile)
The name Tyra is the #2,167 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,703 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 72.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,276 (77.7% percentile) for all time with 14,560 births since 1914. For boys, it ranks #4,443 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 143 births since 1921.
Tyra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 1921 for boys). Birth data for Tyra is available in 90 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (89 years for girls and 22 years for boys). 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 Tyra has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tyra reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 64.9% percentile (ranked #307) with 486 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 486 births per million (ranked 64.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2000, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tyra ranks #925 for girls (2.3% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 3.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Tyra reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #641) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tyra".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tyra. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.1% confident that Tyra is pronounced as TAI-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TIH-ruh, at 10.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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