Meaning not yet researched.
Tyus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,200 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,200 in 1995; #6,422 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tyus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,422 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #1,200.
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Tyus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,200 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 94 (1995).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Tyus, making it the 6,422nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,375 places from #5,047 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 20 boys named Tyus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,200, reached in 1995. That year also had the most boys given the name: 94. For comparison, it was #2,229 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tyus in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 6 babies. In all, 1,077 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 394 babies named Tyus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 288 US boys were named Tyus; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tess (14,770 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tyius 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: Tyius (7).
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 Tyus 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 | — | — | 14 | #6,422 |
| 2024 | — | — | 20 | #5,047 |
| 2023 | — | — | 19 | #5,239 |
| 2022 | — | — | 31 | #3,684 |
| 2021 | — | — | 34 | #3,419 |
| 2020 | — | — | 36 | #3,198 |
| 2019 | — | — | 30 | #3,711 |
| 2018 | — | — | 37 | #3,164 |
| 2017 | — | — | 33 | #3,433 |
| 2016 | — | — | 34 | #3,354 |
| 2015 | — | — | 61 | #2,229 |
| 2014 | — | — | 15 | #5,976 |
| 2013 | — | — | 16 | #5,635 |
| 2012 | — | — | 21 | #4,671 |
| 2011 | — | — | 24 | #4,205 |
| 2010 | — | — | 13 | #6,679 |
| 2009 | — | — | 16 | #5,782 |
| 2008 | — | — | 23 | #4,384 |
| 2007 | — | — | 20 | #4,791 |
| 2006 | — | — | 23 | #4,209 |
| 2005 | — | — | 19 | #4,623 |
| 2004 | — | — | 21 | #4,258 |
| 2003 | — | — | 14 | #5,537 |
| 2002 | — | — | 28 | #3,255 |
| 2001 | — | — | 27 | #3,315 |
| 2000 | — | — | 48 | #2,130 |
| 1999 | — | — | 63 | #1,689 |
| 1998 | — | — | 60 | #1,716 |
| 1997 | — | — | 50 | #1,885 |
| 1996 | — | — | 93 | #1,215 |
| 1995 | — | — | 94 | #1,200 |
| 1994 | — | — | 19 | #3,587 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,749 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,742 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,434 |
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).