girls:
50 births since 1976
#5666 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.1k births since 1913
#2749 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1913
#5650 (27th percentile)
The name Tyre is the #5,650 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,137 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 27.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,749 (40.0% percentile) for all time with 2,087 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,666 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 50 births since 1976.
Tyre first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1976 for girls). Birth data for Tyre is available in 83 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (83 years for boys and 9 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 Tyre has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tyre reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 11.6% percentile (ranked #712) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 48 births per million (ranked 11.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2000, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Tyre ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 10.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tyre reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #843) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tyre".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tyre. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.0% confident that Tyre is pronounced as tire, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAI-er, at 31.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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