Ty
Ty is ranked 857th among boys in 2024 (283 births). Its best rank was 169th, in 2005.
- Rank in 2024
- #857down 85 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2830.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 20052,451 births
- Best rank
- #169in 2005
- Since 1915
- 47,294people given the name
The story in the numbers
47,294 boys have been named Ty in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 2,451 births — 0.12% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 425 → 857).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 36%. It has spent 70 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ty | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 27 | |
| 1920s | 13 | |
| 1930s | 24 | |
| 1940s | 135 | |
| 1950s | 672 | |
| 1960s | 3,553 | |
| 1970s | 3,830 | |
| 1980s | 3,634 | |
| 1990s | 9,294 | |
| 2000s | 17,122 | |
| 2010s | 7,209 | |
| 2020s | 1,781 |
In 2005, its biggest year
Ty was the 169th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2005 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2005.
Names that rose and fell with Ty
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Devlinpeak 2007
- Osvaldopeak 2004
- Iainpeak 2003
- Isaccpeak 2003
- Daganpeak 2003
- Cuauhtemocpeak 2007
- Donivanpeak 2007
- Dalenpeak 2001
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.