How rare is the name Tyrone?

50,642 people in the United States have the first name Tyrone, about 1 in 5,964. It ranks #894 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TYRONE

#894

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
50,642
About
1 in 5,964
This common or more
68.4%
Who bears it

Of the 50,642 people named Tyrone, 81.7% reported their origin as Black, 8.1% as White and 4.2% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tyrone peaked in 1970, when 2,561 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19142025
Peak year
1970
Births that year
2,561
In 2025*
132 ▼95%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 80,146 babies have been given the name since 1914. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Tyrone by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #311. The largest share of babies named Tyrone, 34.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1910s#8,50918
1920s#6,12578
1930s#1,472731
1940s#6234,669
1950s#43012,560
1960s#37816,615
1970s#31118,151
1980s#43911,735
1990s#6827,945
2000s#1,1814,387
2010s#1,9332,409
2020s#2,798848
Greatest Generation 1901–270.1%
Silent Generation 1928–453.5%
Baby boom 1946–6429.1%
Generation X 1965–8034.8%
Millennials 1981–9620.7%
Generation Z 1997–128.9%
2013 and later3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Tyrone is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tyrone has been most common in District of Columbia (7.1×), Louisiana (2.8×), and Maryland (2.8×), and least common in Iowa (0.11×).

76,225 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Tyrone

#892 Esmeralda · 50,748#893 Wade · 50,704#895 Kirsten · 50,529#896 Doug · 50,315

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tyrone, most common first.

#3,601 Tyron · 5,680#15,579 Tyronne · 736#20,915 Tyrome · 490#36,185 Tyrene · 220#36,633 Tyronn · 216

Also a last name

As a last name, Tyrone ranks #35,019 of 156,621, with 694 people. See Tyrone as a last name

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