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Tiger

#3,742 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Tiger has been given to 1,310 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #3,742 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 130 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Tiger, 2025

1 in 111,000

Tiger over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Tiger over time

In 2025, Tiger went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19622025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Tiger: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tiger means

Tiger is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tiger is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,248 boys were recorded with the name Tiger between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 130 in 2010; its best national rank was #1,257 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,719 in 2020 to #3,742 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,764 in 2015 to #3,742 in 2025.

In the United States, 62 girls were recorded with the name Tiger between 2000 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2001; its best national rank was #10,953 in 2001.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tiger?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,742
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tiger sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tiger. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tigers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tiger was born before 2009 — so the typical Tiger is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,248
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (396).

Is Tiger rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+673
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−23
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+22
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.03×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.1%
Peak was 2010 (130)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,257
1998

Spellings of Tiger

Tiger is not the most common spelling — Tyler is, with 53.1% against Tiger's 0.11%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tiger is used

Across 1910–2025, Tiger was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 224,515 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Minnesota1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tiger has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tiger around the world

Where Tiger ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2015
    #5,867
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1997–2022
    #2,778
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1998–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tiger by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,742
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 23
Best rank ever
#1,257
1998
Peak year
2010
130 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,248
Count in 2025
30

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,953
2001
Peak year
2001
9 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
62
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tiger

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Tiger

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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