Meaning not yet researched.
Tyrone: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 132 in 2025. Its best rank was #132 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #132 in 1970; #1,392 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tyrone in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,392 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #132.
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Tyrone: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 132 boys in 2025. Peak: #132 in 1970 · most boys in one year: 2,530 (1970).
In 2025, 132 US boys were named Tyrone, making it the 1,392nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 54 places from #1,338 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 144 boys named Tyrone in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #132, reached in 1970. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,530. For comparison, it was #921 in 2015 and #225 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tyrone in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 80,146 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 18,151 babies named Tyrone.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,586 US boys were named Tyrone; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 204. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,940 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tyrone ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #664 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tyron (7,686 babies since 1880), Tyran (2,335 babies since 1880), Tyren (2,181 babies since 1880) and Tyrin (1,947 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tyronne, Teron and Tyreon are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Tyronne (1,158), Teron (1,007), Tyreon (293), Tyronn (244), Tiron (175), Tyrann (132), Tyrene (89), Terone (40), Tirone (35), Tyrane (22), Tyryn (15), Tyrun (10), 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 Tyrone in the open dataset we use.
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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 7 | #664 | #525 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #765 | #701 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #808 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #926 | #828 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,050 | #673 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,077 | #701 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,087 | #551 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,173 | #820 |
| California | 12 | #1,500 | #1,209 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,549 | #1,147 |
| New York | 6 | #1,740 | #942 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 132 | #1,392 |
| 2024 | — | — | 144 | #1,338 |
| 2023 | — | — | 149 | #1,292 |
| 2022 | — | — | 121 | #1,503 |
| 2021 | — | — | 137 | #1,358 |
| 2020 | — | — | 165 | #1,171 |
| 2019 | — | — | 159 | #1,208 |
| 2018 | — | — | 174 | #1,118 |
| 2017 | — | — | 204 | #995 |
| 2016 | — | — | 201 | #1,012 |
| 2015 | — | — | 233 | #921 |
| 2014 | — | — | 270 | #839 |
| 2013 | — | — | 284 | #794 |
| 2012 | — | — | 285 | #794 |
| 2011 | — | — | 272 | #808 |
| 2010 | — | — | 327 | #713 |
| 2009 | — | — | 356 | #682 |
| 2008 | — | — | 372 | #654 |
| 2007 | — | — | 416 | #606 |
| 2006 | — | — | 434 | #574 |
| 2005 | — | — | 407 | #574 |
| 2004 | — | — | 406 | #562 |
| 2003 | — | — | 413 | #545 |
| 2002 | — | — | 451 | #507 |
| 2001 | — | — | 525 | #460 |
| 2000 | — | — | 607 | #410 |
| 1999 | — | — | 556 | #424 |
| 1998 | — | — | 614 | #398 |
| 1997 | — | — | 679 | #365 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,776 | 681 | #356 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,660 | 717 | #341 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,527 | 834 | #313 |
| 1993 | — | — | 900 | #305 |
| 1992 | — | — | 975 | #289 |
| 1991 | — | — | 942 | #281 |
| 1990 | — | — | 1,029 | #260 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,301 | 1,066 | #246 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,095 | 1,111 | #225 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,119 | 1,149 | #215 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,136 | 1,158 | #210 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,847 | 1,222 | #198 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,886 | 1,059 | #216 |
| 1983 | 8 | #8,013 | 1,146 | #207 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,936 | 1,280 | #195 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,880 | 1,211 | #206 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,139 | 1,195 | #205 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,770 | 1,362 | #176 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,773 | 1,435 | #168 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,261 | 1,572 | #155 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,895 | 1,731 | #146 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,963 | 1,682 | #146 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,829 | 1,816 | #139 |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,681 | 1,831 | #139 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,972 | 1,840 | #144 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,730 | 2,115 | #142 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,445 | 2,530 | #132 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,578 | 2,218 | #137 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,446 | 1,451 | #180 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,072 | 1,562 | #171 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,948 | 1,615 | #168 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,928 | 1,569 | #172 |
| 1964 | 28 | #2,345 | 1,552 | #177 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,774 | 1,609 | #184 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,582 | 1,619 | #185 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,783 | 1,631 | #189 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,647 | 1,599 | #191 |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,672 | 1,821 | #171 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,077 | 1,530 | #186 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,481 | 1,408 | #195 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,310 | 1,407 | #197 |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,044 | 1,276 | #201 |
| 1954 | 15 | #3,011 | 1,223 | #206 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,938 | 1,139 | #205 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,539 | 930 | #217 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,159 | 891 | #218 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,262 | 815 | #225 |
| 1949 | — | — | 790 | #230 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,203 | 724 | #237 |
| 1947 | — | — | 629 | #270 |
| 1946 | — | — | 472 | #298 |
| 1945 | — | — | 367 | #313 |
| 1944 | — | — | 312 | #338 |
| 1943 | — | — | 336 | #332 |
| 1942 | — | — | 336 | #333 |
| 1941 | — | — | 346 | #311 |
| 1940 | — | — | 351 | #298 |
| 1939 | — | — | 406 | #271 |
| 1938 | — | — | 208 | #395 |
| 1937 | — | — | 72 | #712 |
| 1936 | — | — | 8 | #2,838 |
| 1935 | — | — | 16 | #1,830 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,750 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,727 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #3,001 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,231 |
| 1928 | — | — | 8 | #3,335 |
| 1927 | — | — | 13 | #2,398 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,679 |
| 1924 | — | — | 10 | #3,010 |
| 1923 | — | — | 10 | #2,925 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,511 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,192 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,930 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #4,133 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,523 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,719 |
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).