boys:
1k births since 1975
#3552 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1975
#6696 (13th percentile)
The name Tyus is the #6,696 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,043 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 13.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,552 (22.5% percentile) for all time with 1,043 births since 1975.
Tyus first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (first recorded for boys in 1975). Birth data for Tyus is available in 33 out of the 49 years between 1975 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Tyus reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 11.3% percentile (ranked #690) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 47 births per million (ranked 11.1% percentile). Despite a low point around 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Tyus ranks #897 for boys (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 22.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tyus".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tyus. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.4% confident that Tyus is pronounced as TAI-uhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tyues, at 14.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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