Tirrell
Masculine · “Old French tirel”
Tirrell is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 780 boys against 13 girls since 1880.
A man called Tirel probably killed a king of England. In August 1100 William Rufus was shot through the chest while hunting in the New Forest, and Walter Tirel, who was with him, rode straight for the coast and never came back.
How old is the name Tirrell?
Tirrell first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Tirrell alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 700 people named Tirrell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tirrell most popular?
Tirrell peaked in 1978, reaching #1616 nationally. Today it ranks #10695, 9,079 places below that high. See the whole 1978 chart.
Where it comes from
From Tirel to Tirrell
The story of Tirrell
The death of William II is one of the more suspicious accidents in English history. The king was hunting in the New Forest with a party that included his younger brother Henry; an arrow struck him and he died on the spot; the body was left where it fell and carted to Winchester by a local man. Henry rode immediately to Winchester, seized the treasury, and had himself crowned within three days. Walter Tirel fled to France and, according to a chronicler who spoke to him later, denied to the end of his life that he had even been in that part of the wood. Whether it was an accident has been argued for nine hundred years. The surname survived him and traveled to Ireland and then to America.
Meaningscholars disagree
Old French tirel, one who pulls
Tyrrell is a Norman surname, generally derived from Old French tirer, to pull or draw, perhaps as a nickname for a stubborn person. Tirrell is an American spelling; it also overlaps with the separate modern name Terrell. The peak is 1978.
How the name formed
- Tirel
- Tyrrell
- Tirrell
Related forms: Tyrrell · Terrell
Pronouncing Tirrell
tuh-REL
Two syllables, stress on the second. The English surname Tyrrell is usually TIR-ul, with the stress at the front.
Nicknames for Tirrell
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1969
- Most boys named
- 198937 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1616reached in 1978
- Change vs 2021
- +20.0%6 in 2025, from 5
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.
Tirrell in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tyrrell in English — spelling variant
- Terrell in English — related form
Tirrells among us
people named Tirrell are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 284,679 born in 2025 was named Tirrell
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Tirrell
- #10695
- Tirrell on the 2025 chart
- #825
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tirrell went to 6 boys in 2025, but Tyrell and Tyrel are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 103, which makes it the 825th most-given boys’ name of the year — 9,870 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 16,583 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 284,679 for Tirrell 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
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Darrow test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tirrell's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Darrow climbed just as high around 1952, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Darrow's path sketches the road Tirrell is walking now.
Tirrell 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
Tirrell beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tirrell in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Rell works as a modern short form.
- Two syllables with a firm ending.
- The Norman surname behind it is documented from the eleventh century.
- Terrell and Tyrrell are both more common spellings.
- The surname and the given name are stressed differently.
- The 1978 peak dates it closely.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tirrells are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Tirrell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Tirrell?
- Tirrell is one of 3 recorded spellings. Tyrell is the more common one — 78 births in 2025 against 6 for Tirrell.
- How popular is the name Tirrell in 2025?
- Tirrell ranks #10695 among US boy names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tirrell?
- About 1 in every 284,679 US boys born in 2025 was named Tirrell — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tirrell with classmates?
- Tirrell will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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