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Tidus

Masculine · “sun”

2002high 2016
#2539 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare52 boys in 2025

Tidus arrived from a 2001 video game, and the name was built from an Okinawan word for the sun.

How old is the name Tidus?

Tidus first appears in US birth records in 2002 — 23 years ago. The typical Tidus is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Tidus are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Tidus most popular?

Tidus peaked in 2016, reaching #1936 nationally. Today it ranks #2539, 603 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.

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Where it comes from

Our story of Tidus

Our story of Tidus is a story of a name built for a pair. A 2001 game named two characters for the sun and the moon, taking the words from Okinawan — tiida for the sun, and a related term for its companion. The English release spelled it Tidus. American families began registering it in the 2000s. The Okinawan word is genuine; the name is twenty-odd years old and its coinage is the whole history.

Meaningscholars disagree

sun

No inherited etymology as a name. The character's Japanese name Tīdasu is generally understood as built on the Okinawan tiida, 'sun', matching a companion character named for the moon. The coinage is deliberate; the derivation is reported rather than formally documented.

How the name formed

  1. tiida
  2. Tidus

Related forms: ティーダ · Tiida

Pronouncing Tidus

TEE-dus

Two syllables, stress on the first. Some say TY-dus following the spelling.

Nicknames for Tidus

Moderate

TidA clipping, used inside families rather than generally
TyA loose front form, and a name in its own right with a large record
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

BOYS NAMED · 2002–202575380755220022025

US babies named Tidus per year from 2002 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#19362000s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
2002
Most boys named
201675 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1936reached in 2016
Change vs 2024
+18.2%52 in 2025, from 44
Tidus sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2016, with 75 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Tidus in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • ティーダ in Japanese — transliteration
  • Tiida in Okinawan — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.

Tiduss among us

900

people named Tidus are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 32,848 born in 2025 was named Tidus

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Tidus

#2539
Tidus on the 2025 chart
#855
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tidus went to 52 boys in 2025, but Tydus is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 73, which makes it the 855th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,684 places above the chart.

About 1 boy in 23,398 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 32,848 for Tidus itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Lelan test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tidus's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lelan climbed just as high around 1925, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lelan's path sketches the road Tidus is walking now.

40%chance Tidus will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Tidus, aligned on its peakLelan· peak 1925not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-10 yrs+70 yrsLelan · #7204Tidus today
Tidus today is about where Lelan stood in 1934 — 9 years past a #1935-sized peak. By 1949, Lelan had settled around #2531.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Tidus sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Tidus is headed

20022030

US babies named Tidus per year, 2002 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Tidus should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady-10% by 2030projected around #2,834 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Tidus beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Tidus in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Tidusthis name52#2539Yanis52#2539Ebenezer52#2539Mazen52#2539Ziyad52#2539

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • That the name was built from an Okinawan word for the sun is a genuinely good coinage.
  • The sun-and-moon pairing behind it is a first-rate design detail.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk once heard.
What to consider
  • One game dominates the association entirely.
  • The pronunciation splits between two readings.
  • There is no history before 2001.

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Frequently asked

How many Tiduss are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Tidus are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Tidus?
Tidus is the most-used spelling in US records — 52 of the 73 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Tydus.
How popular is the name Tidus in 2025?
Tidus ranks #2539 among US boy names in 2025, with 52 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Tidus?
About 1 in every 32,848 US boys born in 2025 was named Tidus — 52 in all.
Will my child share the name Tidus with classmates?
Tidus will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Tidus

Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.

Yanis#2539 · Ebenezer#2539 · Mazen#2539 · Ziyad#2539 · Mercer#2539 · Ramy#2539 · Konnor#2539 · Luigi#2539

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