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Tye

#3,305 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Pasture

Tye has been given to 5,580 babies in the U.S. since 1930. In 2025 it ranked #3,305 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 170 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.

Babies named Tye, 2025

1 in 92,100

Tye over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Tye over time

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

19302025

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.

Tye: meaning, origin, and history

Pasture

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tye means

Tye means “pasture”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,222 boys were recorded with the name Tye between 1930 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 170 in 2006; its best national rank was #917 in 1968.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,613 in 2020 to #3,305 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,034 in 2015 to #3,305 in 2025.

In the United States, 358 girls were recorded with the name Tye between 1954 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1997; its best national rank was #5,344 in 1974.

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.

How common is Tye?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 47,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,305
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tye 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 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tyes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tye was born before 1998 — so the typical Tye is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,194
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.1% of all recorded uses (1,414).

Is Tye 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
−438
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−692
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,271
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.51×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.2%
Peak was 2006 (170)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#917
1968

Where Tye is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Tye was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 62,887 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 33,333
  2. 2Indiana1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 100,000

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.

Where Tye is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Tye was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Tye has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tye around the world

Where Tye 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
    1996–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1999–2014
    #680
    in 2014
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2008
    #378
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1974–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tye

People whose public names include Tye, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tye in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tye. Linked forms have their own page here.

TayTiyaTiêTije

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tye by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,305
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 692
Best rank ever
#917
1968
Peak year
2006
170 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,222
Count in 2025
36

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,344
1974
Peak year
1997
16 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
358
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tye

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

TyeeTyelerTyesonTyeirTyelorTyerTyerellBettyeTyereTyellTyelarKatyeTyequanTyeshawn

Names with a curve like Tye

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tye, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ChristoferBrandtEverardoPaoloBrittonKendellEfrenJavanDomonicDayneTyrusAlexandro

Sibling names for Tye

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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