Meaning not yet researched.
Tiger: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,260 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,260 in 1998; #3,743 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tiger in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,743 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #1,260.
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Tiger: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,260 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 130 (2010).
In 2025, 30 US boys were named Tiger, making it the 3,743rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 675 places from #4,418 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 24 boys named Tiger in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,260, reached in 1998. The most boys given the name in a single year was 130, in 2010. For comparison, it was #3,765 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tiger in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 7 babies. In all, 1,310 US babies have been given the name, 4.7% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 420 babies named Tiger.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 326 US boys were named Tiger; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 56,936 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Tyger are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tyger (507).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tiger in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 30 | #3,743 |
| 2024 | — | — | 24 | #4,418 |
| 2023 | — | — | 36 | #3,337 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,166 | 64 | #2,266 |
| 2021 | — | — | 25 | #4,223 |
| 2020 | — | — | 29 | #3,722 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,408 | 29 | #3,789 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,686 | 32 | #3,515 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,225 | 29 | #3,761 |
| 2016 | — | — | 28 | #3,877 |
| 2015 | — | — | 29 | #3,765 |
| 2014 | — | — | 33 | #3,362 |
| 2013 | — | — | 34 | #3,257 |
| 2012 | — | — | 26 | #3,992 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,604 | 26 | #3,976 |
| 2010 | — | — | 130 | #1,322 |
| 2009 | — | — | 40 | #2,982 |
| 2008 | — | — | 39 | #3,052 |
| 2007 | — | — | 31 | #3,504 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,981 | 49 | #2,510 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,409 | 28 | #3,519 |
| 2004 | — | — | 26 | #3,625 |
| 2003 | — | — | 28 | #3,357 |
| 2002 | — | — | 45 | #2,333 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,960 | 42 | #2,383 |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,050 | 36 | #2,617 |
| 1999 | — | — | 35 | #2,554 |
| 1998 | — | — | 97 | #1,260 |
| 1997 | — | — | 66 | #1,567 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,812 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #5,093 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,830 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #8,355 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #7,203 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #8,035 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #8,041 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,239 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,685 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,603 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).