How Many People Are Named Tye?
people named Tye are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 64,524 people in the US has this name
Based on 5,580 babies named Tye in Social Security records from 1930 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
179 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a surname meaning "pasture" in Middle English.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Tye in English. Counting Tye and these spellings together, about 51,448 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Tye, 6.6% were girls and 93.4% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1950s: 8.3% of the babies were girls then and 4.8% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Tye alive today is about 29 years old, and 57% are under 30. Half of them were between 17 and 41 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Tye first appears in the records in 1930 and was given most often in 2005, to 179 babies. In 2025, 36 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1930 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Tye has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #917, in 1968. In 2025 it ranked #3,305.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #3,305 |
| Best rank | #917 (1968) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,147 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Tye alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Tye were born in Texas than in any other state: about 578 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Tye was given 3.1 times as often in Texas, 2.8 times in Washington and 2.4 times in Oklahoma.
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