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Tyra

#4,449 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Thyrvi

Tyra has been given to 14,769 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #4,449 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 943 recorded.

Babies named Tyra, 2025

1 in 104,000

Tyra over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02505007501K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tyra: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Thyrvi

coinages and Swedish

What Tyra means

Tyra is a form of Thyrvi.

Origin, language, and formation

Tyra is used in English and Swedish. Its origins include coinages and Swedish.

Tyra is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Thyrvi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,626 girls were recorded with the name Tyra between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 943 in 1998; its best national rank was #320 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,250 in 2020 to #4,449 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,708 in 2015 to #4,449 in 2025.

In the United States, 143 boys were recorded with the name Tyra between 1921 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1963; its best national rank was #2,661 in 1963.

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 Tyra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,449
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tyra sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tyra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tyras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tyra was born before 1996 — so the typical Tyra is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
14,451
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (4,654).

Is Tyra 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
−73
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−199
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,741
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.4%
Peak was 1998 (943)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#320
1998

Spellings of Tyra

Tyra is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 15.4% against Tyra's 0.52%.

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 Tyra is used

Across 1910–2025, Tyra was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 14,079 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in 100,000).

123 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 4,348
  2. 2Maryland1 in 4,348
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 6,250
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 7,143
  5. 5District of Columbia1 in 7,692
  6. 6Florida1 in 7,692
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 9,091
  8. 8Georgia1 in 10,000

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

Tyra around the world

Where Tyra 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
    1996–2024
    #3,319
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2001–2011
    #515
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    2006–2011
    #937
    in 2011
  • France
    2004–2024
    #6,299
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #246
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Tyra

People whose public names include Tyra, 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.

Tyra in other languages

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

Thyra

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

Tyra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,449
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 199
Best rank ever
#320
1998
Peak year
1998
943 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,626
Count in 2025
32

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,661
1963
Peak year
1963
11 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
143
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tyra

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

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Names with a curve like Tyra

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

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Sibling names for Tyra

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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