# Tye (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tye/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,580 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,222 / 358 (6% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 742, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 10 | 10,872 |
| 2006 | 5 | 19,880 |
| 2007 | 5 | 20,368 |
| 2008 | 8 | 13,741 |
| 2009 | 11 | 10,628 |
| 2011 | 5 | 19,402 |
| 2012 | 14 | 8,597 |
| 2013 | 6 | 16,391 |
| 2014 | 8 | 12,989 |
| 2015 | 5 | 18,913 |
| 2016 | 5 | 18,671 |
| 2017 | 8 | 12,645 |
| 2019 | 6 | 15,414 |
| 2020 | 8 | 12,060 |
| 2023 | 6 | 15,038 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 106 | 1,515 |
| 2012 | 93 | 1,666 |
| 2013 | 75 | 1,898 |
| 2014 | 78 | 1,882 |
| 2015 | 71 | 2,034 |
| 2016 | 63 | 2,183 |
| 2017 | 60 | 2,238 |
| 2018 | 44 | 2,790 |
| 2019 | 54 | 2,483 |
| 2020 | 49 | 2,614 |
| 2021 | 62 | 2,272 |
| 2022 | 28 | 3,983 |
| 2023 | 59 | 2,361 |
| 2024 | 45 | 2,867 |
| 2025 | 36 | 3,306 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |
| 2005 | 6 | 2,970 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 43 | 706 |
| 2011 | 25 | 1,045 |
| 2012 | 23 | 1,152 |
| 2013 | 24 | 1,086 |
| 2014 | 20 | 1,281 |
| 2015 | 7 | 2,707 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2,335 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,052 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,112 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,266 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2,960 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2023 | 7 | 2,813 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,254 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## People named Tye

- Tye Sheridan, American actor (born 1996)
- Tye McGinn, Canadian ice hockey player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.