# Tyra (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tyra/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 14,769 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 143 / 14,626 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 972, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 86 | 2,214 |
| 2012 | 69 | 2,629 |
| 2013 | 85 | 2,210 |
| 2014 | 70 | 2,558 |
| 2015 | 66 | 2,708 |
| 2016 | 61 | 2,825 |
| 2017 | 66 | 2,661 |
| 2018 | 54 | 3,048 |
| 2019 | 51 | 3,168 |
| 2020 | 33 | 4,252 |
| 2021 | 49 | 3,293 |
| 2022 | 38 | 3,960 |
| 2023 | 28 | 4,856 |
| 2024 | 33 | 4,377 |
| 2025 | 32 | 4,450 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 5 | 4,561 |
| 1968 | 8 | 3,349 |
| 1970 | 6 | 4,700 |
| 1971 | 7 | 4,354 |
| 1972 | 9 | 3,602 |
| 1973 | 7 | 4,478 |
| 1975 | 6 | 5,428 |
| 1977 | 7 | 5,097 |
| 1980 | 5 | 7,243 |
| 1981 | 11 | 3,841 |
| 1983 | 6 | 6,185 |
| 1984 | 6 | 6,277 |
| 1985 | 5 | 7,528 |
| 1986 | 6 | 6,680 |
| 1997 | 6 | 9,198 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 41 | 862 |
| 2011 | 32 | 1,067 |
| 2012 | 28 | 1,184 |
| 2013 | 17 | 1,707 |
| 2014 | 17 | 1,702 |
| 2015 | 13 | 2,070 |
| 2016 | 10 | 2,547 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,341 |
| 2018 | 16 | 1,788 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3,151 |
| 2020 | 12 | 2,163 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,519 |
| 2022 | 7 | 3,148 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,598 |
| 2024 | 7 | 3,318 |

## People named Tyra

- Tyra Banks, American television personality, producer, and former model
- Tyra Banxxx, American pornographic actress
- Tyra Ferrell, American actress
- Tyra of Denmark, Danish princess and Norwegian Viking age queen consort
- Tyra Caterina Grant, American and currently Italian tennis 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.