girls:
318 births since 1973
#5398 (6th percentile)
boys:
47.1k births since 1912
#521 (89th percentile)
overall:
47.4k births since 1912
#1117 (86th percentile)
The name Tyson is the #1,117 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 47,437 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 85.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #521 (88.7% percentile) for all time with 47,119 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,398 (5.5% percentile) for all time with 318 births since 1973.
Tyson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1973 for girls). Birth data for Tyson is available in 107 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (107 years for boys and 32 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 Tyson has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tyson reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 74.0% percentile (ranked #235) with 703 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 716 births per million (ranked 73.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Tyson ranks #366 for boys (59.9% percentile) with 441 births per million, which is 61.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tyson reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #741) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tyson".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tyson. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.4% confident that Tyson is pronounced as TAI-suhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAI-sihn, at 14.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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