girls:
709 births since 1948
#5007 (12th percentile)
boys:
79.2k births since 1914
#363 (92nd percentile)
overall:
79.9k births since 1914
#800 (90th percentile)
The name Tyrone is the #800 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 79,865 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 89.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #363 (92.1% percentile) for all time with 79,156 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,007 (12.4% percentile) for all time with 709 births since 1948.
Tyrone first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1948 for girls). Birth data for Tyrone is available in 104 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (104 years for boys and 44 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 Tyrone has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tyrone reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 80.5% percentile (ranked #131) with 1,329 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 1,329 births per million (ranked 80.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1973, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Tyrone ranks #768 for boys (15.7% percentile) with 81 births per million, which is 6.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tyrone reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #747) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tyrone".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Tyrone. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.4% confident that Tyrone is pronounced as tai-ROHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAI-rohn, at 40.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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