In 2025, 36 US boys were named Tyrus, making it the 3,307th most common boys’ name of the year, down 674 places from #2,633 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 51 boys named Tyrus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #996, reached in 1912. The most boys given the name in a single year was 120, in 1997. For comparison, it was #1,949 in 2015 and #2,107 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tyrus in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 6 babies. In all, 4,909 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 895 babies named Tyrus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 572 US boys were named Tyrus; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 78. 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 Tyrese (9,131 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tiras, Terius and Tirus are summarised on this page.