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Tyrus

#3,306 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tyrus has been given to 4,909 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #3,306 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 120 recorded.

Babies named Tyrus, 2025

1 in 92,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tyrus: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tyrus means

Tyrus is a given name.

The naming story behind Tyrus

Wikidata records Tyrus as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q98415808, 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, 4,909 boys were recorded with the name Tyrus between 1910 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 120 in 1997; its best national rank was #996 in 1912.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,258 in 2020 to #3,306 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,949 in 2015 to #3,306 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 Tyrus?

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
#3,306
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tyrus 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 Tyrus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tyruss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tyrus was born before 1995 — so the typical Tyrus is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
18.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,318
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 18.2% of all recorded uses (895).

Is Tyrus 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 dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,048
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,357
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.0%
Peak was 1997 (120)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#996
1912

Spellings of Tyrus

Tyrus is not the most common spelling — Cyrus is, with 21.7% against Tyrus's 3.7%.

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 Tyrus is used

Across 2016–2025, Tyrus was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 45,670 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 20,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 33,333
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 50,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 50,000
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

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.

Tyrus around the world

Where Tyrus 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
    1999–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1994–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1995–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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 Tyrus

People whose public names include Tyrus, 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.

Tyrus by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,306
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,048
Best rank ever
#996
1912
Peak year
1997
120 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,909
Count in 2025
36

Names similar to Tyrus

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

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Names with a curve like Tyrus

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

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Sibling names for Tyrus

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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