Meaning not yet researched.
Tyson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 565 in 2025. Its best rank was #237 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #237 in 2009; #531 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tyson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#531 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #237.
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Tyson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 565 boys in 2025. Peak: #237 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 1,491 (2009).
In 2025, 565 US boys were named Tyson, making it the 531st most common boys’ name of the year, down 74 places from #457 in 2024. That is 119 fewer than the 684 boys named Tyson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #237, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,491. For comparison, it was #315 in 2015 and #1,940 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tyson in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 48,713 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 11,952 babies named Tyson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,618 US boys were named Tyson; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 1,064. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,023 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tyson ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #202 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tysen (1,678 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tysean, Tycen and Tyeson 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: Tysean (1,027), Tycen (635), Tyeson (241), Tison (221), Tysin (139), Tysun (65), Tysan (16), Tyzen (11), Tysaun (8), Tysyn (7), Tieson (6), Tyzon (5), 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 Tyson 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 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 5 | #202 | #238 |
| Idaho | 10 | #278 | #204 |
| Minnesota | 20 | #313 | #231 |
| Iowa | 12 | #330 | #332 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #330 | #207 |
| Alabama | 17 | #332 | #197 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #335 | #312 |
| Georgia | 33 | #368 | #222 |
| Missouri | 17 | #391 | #242 |
| Tennessee | 20 | #407 | #208 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #434 | #309 |
| Ohio | 25 | #438 | #290 |
| Colorado | 13 | #467 | #457 |
| Utah | 10 | #468 | #149 |
| Oregon | 8 | #471 | #170 |
| Virginia | 17 | #472 | #245 |
| Indiana | 15 | #482 | #387 |
| Michigan | 18 | #484 | #362 |
| Washington | 15 | #500 | #241 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #518 | #269 |
| Kansas | 7 | #518 | #356 |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #524 | #376 |
| Florida | 32 | #555 | #361 |
| California | 52 | #581 | #373 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #618 | #345 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #622 | #268 |
| Illinois | 15 | #630 | #315 |
| Maryland | 7 | #692 | #222 |
| Texas | 36 | #776 | #384 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #779 | #401 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #800 | #221 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #826 | #705 |
| Arizona | 7 | #837 | #402 |
| New York | 17 | #840 | #592 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 565 | #531 |
| 2024 | — | — | 684 | #457 |
| 2023 | — | — | 809 | #394 |
| 2022 | — | — | 815 | #392 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,488 | 927 | #352 |
| 2020 | — | — | 841 | #372 |
| 2019 | — | — | 938 | #353 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,951 | 927 | #356 |
| 2017 | — | — | 1,064 | #321 |
| 2016 | — | — | 1,048 | #331 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,132 | #315 |
| 2014 | 5 | #19,027 | 1,277 | #283 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,950 | 1,321 | #269 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,359 | 1,353 | #264 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,410 | 1,384 | #251 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,849 | 1,472 | #238 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,491 | #237 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,363 | 1,400 | #252 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,270 | #270 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,247 | #277 |
| 2005 | — | — | 1,238 | #267 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,065 | 1,116 | #285 |
| 2003 | — | — | 1,039 | #296 |
| 2002 | — | — | 932 | #307 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,441 | 833 | #333 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,839 | 819 | #335 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,340 | 736 | #355 |
| 1998 | 6 | #14,019 | 654 | #382 |
| 1997 | 7 | #12,017 | 556 | #416 |
| 1996 | — | — | 505 | #445 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,668 | 465 | #471 |
| 1994 | — | — | 404 | #501 |
| 1993 | — | — | 419 | #496 |
| 1992 | — | — | 366 | #531 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,356 | 464 | #461 |
| 1990 | — | — | 569 | #408 |
| 1989 | — | — | 669 | #344 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,885 | 937 | #251 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,777 | 934 | #247 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,745 | 959 | #240 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,939 | 935 | #246 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,780 | 925 | #239 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,806 | 830 | #253 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,198 | 861 | #256 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,243 | 908 | #245 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,737 | 912 | #244 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,225 | 802 | #265 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,204 | 812 | #250 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,936 | 755 | #263 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,896 | 680 | #280 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,941 | 638 | #298 |
| 1974 | 16 | #4,033 | 586 | #312 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,731 | 440 | #366 |
| 1972 | — | — | 268 | #479 |
| 1971 | — | — | 241 | #524 |
| 1970 | — | — | 175 | #616 |
| 1969 | — | — | 107 | #758 |
| 1968 | — | — | 84 | #811 |
| 1967 | — | — | 77 | #821 |
| 1966 | — | — | 58 | #959 |
| 1965 | — | — | 45 | #1,124 |
| 1964 | — | — | 45 | #1,159 |
| 1963 | — | — | 43 | #1,193 |
| 1962 | — | — | 44 | #1,186 |
| 1961 | — | — | 24 | #1,682 |
| 1960 | — | — | 32 | #1,431 |
| 1959 | — | — | 20 | #1,861 |
| 1958 | — | — | 14 | #2,257 |
| 1957 | — | — | 21 | #1,787 |
| 1956 | — | — | 20 | #1,816 |
| 1955 | — | — | 23 | #1,644 |
| 1954 | — | — | 19 | #1,820 |
| 1953 | — | — | 16 | #2,034 |
| 1952 | — | — | 13 | #2,245 |
| 1951 | — | — | 12 | #2,362 |
| 1950 | — | — | 16 | #1,940 |
| 1949 | — | — | 19 | #1,750 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,994 |
| 1947 | — | — | 21 | #1,694 |
| 1946 | — | — | 14 | #2,024 |
| 1945 | — | — | 8 | #2,731 |
| 1944 | — | — | 11 | #2,301 |
| 1943 | — | — | 10 | #2,552 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,638 |
| 1940 | — | — | 11 | #2,312 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,464 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,520 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,705 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,649 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #4,112 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,238 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,595 |
| 1928 | — | — | 7 | #3,675 |
| 1927 | — | — | 11 | #2,689 |
| 1926 | — | — | 12 | #2,557 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,577 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,837 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,790 |
| 1922 | — | — | 14 | #2,336 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,974 |
| 1920 | — | — | 11 | #2,750 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #3,104 |
| 1918 | — | — | 9 | #3,081 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,937 |
| 1916 | — | — | 13 | #2,249 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,813 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,720 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #2,081 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,876 |
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).