Meaning not yet researched.
Tye: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #917 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #917 in 1968; #3,306 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tye in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,306 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #917.
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Tye: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #917 in 1968 · most boys in one year: 170 (2006).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Tye, making it the 3,306th most common boys’ name of the year, down 439 places from #2,867 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 45 boys named Tye in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #917, reached in 1968. The most boys given the name in a single year was 170, in 2006. For comparison, it was #2,034 in 2015 and #4,156 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tye in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1930 with 6 babies. In all, 5,580 US babies have been given the name, 6.4% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,502 babies named Tye.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 500 US boys were named Tye; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ty (48,344 babies since 1880), Theo (39,333 babies since 1880), Tia (33,896 babies since 1880) and Thea (20,118 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tyghe are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tyghe (6).
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 Tye 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 | — | — | 36 | #3,306 |
| 2024 | — | — | 45 | #2,867 |
| 2023 | 6 | #15,038 | 59 | #2,361 |
| 2022 | — | — | 28 | #3,983 |
| 2021 | — | — | 62 | #2,272 |
| 2020 | 8 | #12,060 | 49 | #2,614 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,414 | 54 | #2,483 |
| 2018 | — | — | 44 | #2,790 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,645 | 60 | #2,238 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,671 | 63 | #2,183 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,913 | 71 | #2,034 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,989 | 78 | #1,882 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,391 | 75 | #1,898 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,597 | 93 | #1,666 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,402 | 106 | #1,515 |
| 2010 | — | — | 109 | #1,501 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,628 | 127 | #1,359 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,741 | 135 | #1,293 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,368 | 157 | #1,143 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,880 | 170 | #1,057 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,872 | 169 | #1,008 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,568 | 160 | #1,028 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,467 | 138 | #1,118 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,521 | 111 | #1,235 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,424 | 111 | #1,215 |
| 2000 | 13 | #8,005 | 136 | #1,059 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,687 | 98 | #1,267 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,073 | 99 | #1,236 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,150 | 114 | #1,115 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,752 | 105 | #1,138 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,309 | 111 | #1,068 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,759 | 88 | #1,242 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,674 | 71 | #1,378 |
| 1992 | — | — | 61 | #1,503 |
| 1991 | — | — | 84 | #1,213 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,880 | 75 | #1,286 |
| 1989 | 10 | #8,005 | 94 | #1,093 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,344 | 72 | #1,200 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,772 | 75 | #1,113 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,108 | 60 | #1,253 |
| 1985 | 12 | #6,017 | 79 | #1,042 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,777 | 80 | #999 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,442 | 64 | #1,128 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,235 | 84 | #989 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,099 | 77 | #1,042 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,135 | 66 | #1,124 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,974 | 68 | #1,088 |
| 1978 | — | — | 72 | #1,033 |
| 1977 | — | — | 63 | #1,098 |
| 1976 | — | — | 54 | #1,178 |
| 1975 | — | — | 55 | #1,144 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,345 | 64 | #1,033 |
| 1973 | — | — | 59 | #1,066 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,260 | 68 | #987 |
| 1971 | — | — | 69 | #984 |
| 1970 | — | — | 51 | #1,167 |
| 1969 | — | — | 46 | #1,166 |
| 1968 | — | — | 63 | #917 |
| 1967 | — | — | 46 | #1,100 |
| 1966 | — | — | 31 | #1,397 |
| 1965 | — | — | 33 | #1,359 |
| 1964 | — | — | 39 | #1,261 |
| 1963 | — | — | 31 | #1,423 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,822 | 25 | #1,621 |
| 1961 | — | — | 22 | #1,773 |
| 1960 | — | — | 21 | #1,808 |
| 1959 | — | — | 21 | #1,801 |
| 1958 | — | — | 13 | #2,363 |
| 1957 | — | — | 13 | #2,367 |
| 1956 | — | — | 14 | #2,255 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,665 | 10 | #2,746 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,564 | 10 | #2,728 |
| 1953 | — | — | 9 | #2,891 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,352 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,837 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,156 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,641 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,707 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,984 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,744 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,968 |
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).