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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Ty” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ty” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ty” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Ty” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Ty” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Ty” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Ty” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ty” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 -100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 -100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1941 12 0.000004925 12 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 -100%
1944 15 0.000005576 15 -100%
1945 19 0.000007162 19 -100%
1946 13 0.000004068 13 -100%
1947 17 0.000004719 17 -100%
1948 17 0.000004924 17 -100%
1949 21 0.000006026 21 -100%
1950 24 0.000006851 24 -100%
1951 35 0.000009501 35 -100%
1952 39 0.000010269 39 -100%
1953 44 0.000011418 44 -100%
1954 50 0.000012561 5 45 -80%
1955 71 0.000017683 71 -100%
1956 88 0.000021343 8 80 -82%
1957 64 0.00001523 64 -100%
1958 89 0.000021529 7 82 -84%
1959 195 0.000046898 7 188 -93%
1960 259 0.000062352 5 254 -96%
1961 332 0.000080149 9 323 -95%
1962 368 0.000091194 11 357 -94%
1963 381 0.000096256 8 373 -96%
1964 384 0.000098775 12 372 -94%
1965 301 0.000083024 301 -100%
1966 337 0.00009696 10 327 -94%
1967 379 0.000111638 13 366 -93%
1968 462 0.000136751 6 456 -97%
1969 430 0.00012373 6 424 -97%
1970 445 0.000123388 8 437 -96%
1971 502 0.000146255 8 494 -97%
1972 431 0.00013713 8 423 -96%
1973 367 0.000121649 367 -100%
1974 359 0.000118092 8 351 -96%
1975 338 0.000111943 15 323 -91%
1976 342 0.000112711 7 335 -96%
1977 382 0.000120258 382 -100%
1978 364 0.000114686 7 357 -96%
1979 372 0.000111812 11 361 -94%
1980 407 0.000118159 13 394 -94%
1981 416 0.000120253 14 402 -93%
1982 386 0.000110035 13 373 -93%
1983 350 0.000101059 13 337 -93%
1984 398 0.000114081 12 386 -94%
1985 376 0.000105348 15 361 -92%
1986 385 0.000108235 8 377 -96%
1987 326 0.000090415 11 315 -93%
1988 346 0.000093639 10 336 -94%
1989 362 0.000094162 9 353 -95%
1990 520 0.000131563 10 510 -96%
1991 598 0.00015352 11 587 -96%
1992 706 0.000183793 13 693 -96%
1993 783 0.000207677 16 767 -96%
1994 828 0.000222721 15 813 -96%
1995 999 0.00027279 14 985 -97%
1996 1234 0.000338342 14 1220 -98%
1997 1375 0.000379232 17 1358 -98%
1998 1162 0.000315915 24 1138 -96%
1999 1245 0.000337045 22 1223 -96%
2000 1317 0.000348422 22 1295 -97%
2001 1230 0.000328579 12 1218 -98%
2002 1631 0.000436296 22 1609 -97%
2003 1963 0.000516264 27 1936 -97%
2004 2229 0.000583367 30 2199 -97%
2005 2475 0.000643719 24 2451 -98%
2006 1816 0.000459028 18 1798 -98%
2007 1549 0.000387474 11 1538 -99%
2008 1456 0.000370421 20 1436 -97%
2009 1654 0.000432964 12 1642 -99%
2010 1307 0.000353651 10 1297 -98%
2011 1003 0.000274209 9 994 -98%
2012 899 0.000245805 9 890 -98%
2013 775 0.000212581 7 768 -98%
2014 727 0.000196148 6 721 -98%
2015 627 0.000169418 9 618 -97%
2016 549 0.000149644 11 538 -96%
2017 463 0.000129467 463 -100%
2018 481 0.000136807 9 472 -96%
2019 453 0.000130512 5 448 -98%
2020 416 0.000124529 6 410 -97%
2021 390 0.000115114 390 -100%
2022 366 0.000108184 366 -100%
2023 332 0.000100266 332 -100%
2024 283 0.000085023 283 -100%

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