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Tyrel

#5,186 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tyrel has been given to 3,426 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #5,186 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1981, with 181 recorded.

Babies named Tyrel, 2025

1 in 174,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tyrel: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tyrel means

Tyrel is a given name.

The naming story behind Tyrel

Wikidata records Tyrel as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q98777311, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,426 boys were recorded with the name Tyrel between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 181 in 1981; its best national rank was #633 in 1981.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,589 in 2020 to #5,186 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,285 in 2015 to #5,186 in 2025.

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 Tyrel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,186
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tyrel 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tyrel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tyrels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tyrel was born before 1990 — so the typical Tyrel is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
39.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,426
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 39.7% of all recorded uses (1,360).

Is Tyrel 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
+1,608
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,403
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−901
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.5%
Peak was 1981 (181)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#633
1981

Spellings of Tyrel

Tyrel is not the most common spelling — Tyler is, with 74.9% against Tyrel's 0.43%.

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 Tyrel is used

Across 1910–2025, Tyrel was most concentrated in Idaho — about 1 in 4,762 boys, against 1 in 86,058 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

021 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Idaho1 in 4,762
  2. 2Montana1 in 4,762
  3. 3Utah1 in 7,143
  4. 4Wyoming1 in 9,091
  5. 5North Dakota1 in 14,286
  6. 6Colorado1 in 20,000
  7. 7Oregon1 in 25,000
  8. 8South Dakota1 in 33,333

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

Tyrel around the world

Where Tyrel 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
    1996–2010
    #3,865
    in 2010
  • France
    2014–2014
    #5,328
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2011
    #1,826
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1982–2013
    #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.

Notable people named Tyrel

People whose public names include Tyrel, 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.

Tyrel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,186
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,403
Best rank ever
#633
1981
Peak year
1981
181 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,426
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Tyrel

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

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Names with a curve like Tyrel

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

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Sibling names for Tyrel

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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