Meaning not yet researched.
Ty: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 306 in 2025. Its best rank was #169 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #169 in 2005; #813 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Ty in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#813 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #169.
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Ty: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 306 boys in 2025. Peak: #169 in 2005 · most boys in one year: 2,451 (2005).
In 2025, 306 US boys were named Ty, making it the 813th most common boys’ name of the year, up 48 places from #861 in 2024. That is 23 more than the 283 boys named Ty in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #169, reached in 2005. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,451. For comparison, it was #483 in 2015 and #1,533 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ty in 97 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 48,344 US babies have been given the name, 1.5% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 17,321 babies named Ty.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,013 US boys were named Ty; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 538. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,582 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ty ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #376 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tia (33,896 babies since 1880), Tye (5,580 babies since 1880), Teo (2,987 babies since 1880) and Tea (2,493 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tya, Tiya and Thi are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tya (791), Tiya (762), Thi (471), Tee (458), Thy (366), Tyee (318), Tiye (269), Tyia (232), Teyo (96), Tyah (90), Ti (69), Tio (12), and more.
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 Ty in the open dataset we use.
Ty is listed as a nickname for Tyler.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 13 | #376 | #276 |
| Iowa | 10 | #376 | #378 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #458 | #322 |
| Idaho | 5 | #486 | #436 |
| Kansas | 7 | #517 | #296 |
| Alabama | 9 | #567 | #479 |
| Missouri | 10 | #596 | #408 |
| Colorado | 9 | #620 | #547 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #621 | #534 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #636 | #369 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #657 | #432 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #661 | #361 |
| Arizona | 10 | #669 | #520 |
| Indiana | 9 | #709 | #539 |
| Texas | 39 | #720 | #507 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #778 | #503 |
| Washington | 8 | #799 | #379 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #835 | #399 |
| Ohio | 9 | #932 | #448 |
| California | 24 | #954 | #620 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,075 | #411 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,099 | #448 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,187 | #546 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,261 | #586 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,463 | #978 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,080 | 306 | #813 |
| 2024 | — | — | 283 | #861 |
| 2023 | — | — | 332 | #772 |
| 2022 | — | — | 369 | #716 |
| 2021 | — | — | 390 | #683 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,959 | 411 | #652 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,785 | 449 | #609 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,370 | 472 | #582 |
| 2017 | — | — | 463 | #590 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,065 | 538 | #541 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,771 | 618 | #483 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,376 | 721 | #425 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,493 | 768 | #388 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,141 | 890 | #346 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,080 | 994 | #319 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,191 | 1,298 | #265 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,942 | 1,642 | #222 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,785 | 1,437 | #247 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,775 | 1,538 | #237 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,126 | 1,798 | #210 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,429 | 2,451 | #169 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,596 | 2,199 | #181 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,801 | 1,936 | #193 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,437 | 1,609 | #214 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,718 | 1,218 | #269 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,303 | 1,295 | #259 |
| 1999 | 22 | #5,031 | 1,223 | #256 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,628 | 1,138 | #262 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,854 | 1,358 | #228 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,714 | 1,220 | #242 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,624 | 985 | #279 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,304 | 813 | #318 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,937 | 767 | #330 |
| 1992 | 13 | #7,052 | 693 | #345 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,962 | 587 | #386 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,464 | 510 | #434 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,719 | 353 | #509 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,657 | 336 | #499 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,768 | 315 | #505 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,486 | 377 | #448 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,067 | 361 | #452 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,882 | 386 | #422 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,440 | 337 | #452 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,519 | 373 | #434 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,237 | 402 | #413 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,530 | 394 | #413 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,162 | 361 | #420 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,516 | 357 | #413 |
| 1977 | — | — | 382 | #400 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,112 | 335 | #427 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,358 | 323 | #441 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,865 | 351 | #417 |
| 1973 | — | — | 367 | #406 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,528 | 423 | #383 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,595 | 494 | #365 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,336 | 437 | #386 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,433 | 424 | #381 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,963 | 456 | #362 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,834 | 366 | #400 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,472 | 327 | #422 |
| 1965 | — | — | 301 | #448 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,083 | 372 | #419 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,268 | 373 | #415 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,248 | 357 | #423 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,866 | 323 | #451 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,249 | 254 | #495 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,533 | 188 | #568 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,368 | 82 | #832 |
| 1957 | — | — | 64 | #956 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,806 | 80 | #839 |
| 1955 | — | — | 71 | #884 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,563 | 45 | #1,121 |
| 1953 | — | — | 44 | #1,120 |
| 1952 | — | — | 39 | #1,191 |
| 1951 | — | — | 35 | #1,259 |
| 1950 | — | — | 24 | #1,533 |
| 1949 | — | — | 21 | #1,666 |
| 1948 | — | — | 17 | #1,880 |
| 1947 | — | — | 17 | #1,912 |
| 1946 | — | — | 13 | #2,137 |
| 1945 | — | — | 19 | #1,575 |
| 1944 | — | — | 15 | #1,884 |
| 1943 | — | — | 10 | #2,551 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #4,006 |
| 1941 | — | — | 12 | #2,199 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,438 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,933 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,893 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,519 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,506 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,449 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,929 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #4,125 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,757 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,538 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,849 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,345 |
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).