girls:
56 births since 1957
#5660 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.3k births since 1954
#2658 (42nd percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1954
#5495 (29th percentile)
The name Tyran is the #5,495 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,310 recorded births since 1954. This represents the 29.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,658 (42.0% percentile) for all time with 2,254 births since 1954. For girls, it ranks #5,660 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 56 births since 1957.
Tyran first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1954 (1954 for boys and 1957 for girls). Birth data for Tyran is available in 69 out of the 70 years between 1954 and 2023 (68 years for boys and 10 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 Tyran has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tyran reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 9.5% percentile (ranked #737) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 39 births per million (ranked 9.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Tyran ranks #895 for boys (1.8% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 29.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tyran reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #739) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tyran".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Tyran. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.6% confident that Tyran is pronounced as TAI-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TIH-ruhn, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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