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Tyke

Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Tyke has been given to 212 babies in the U.S. since 1968. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Tyke, 2024

1 in 418,000

Tyke over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tyke: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tyke means

Tyke is a given name.

The naming story behind Tyke

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Tyke in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 419.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Dan. Teu. raging”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Tyke, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 212 boys were recorded with the name Tyke between 1968 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2009; its best national rank was #4,708 in 1968.

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 Tyke?

Tyke had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tyke 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tyke. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tykes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tyke was born before 2008 — so the typical Tyke is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
212
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.2% of all recorded uses (81).

Is Tyke 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (13)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,708
1968

Spellings of Tyke

Tyke is not the most common spelling — Tyler is, with 29.7% against Tyke's 0.01%.

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 Tyke is used

Across 1910–2025, Tyke was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 295,875 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 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. Tyke has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tyke around the world

Where Tyke 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.

  • South Australia
    1998–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tyke by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,708
1968
Peak year
2009
13 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
212
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tyke

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

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Sibling names for Tyke

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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