Tyana
Feminine
Tyana is a Bronze Age city in Anatolia, known to the Hittites as Tuwanuwa and to the Greeks and Romans as the home of Apollonius of Tyana. It is also, quite separately, an American coinage from Ty plus -ana. The two have no connection at all, and they are spelled identically.
How old is the name Tyana?
Tyana first appears in US birth records in 1963 — 62 years ago. The typical Tyana alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 2,700 people named Tyana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tyana most popular?
Tyana peaked in 1999, reaching #1279 nationally. Today it ranks #6325, 5,046 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Tuwanuwa to Tyana
The story of Tyana
Apollonius of Tyana was a first-century wandering philosopher and miracle-worker whose biography was written to rival the gospels, which is why an obscure Cappadocian city has a name still in print. The American Tyana has nothing to do with any of that: it belongs to the Ty- family that ran through United States naming from the 1970s to the 1990s, producing Tyanna, Tyesha, Tyra and Tyrell, and it reached its best year in 1999. Collisions like this are more common than they look, because the stock of easy syllables is small and the world's place names are many; what makes this one notable is how exact it is.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
The Anatolian place name is ancient and its own sense is unrecovered; it comes to Greek through Hittite Tuwanuwa. The modern American name is built from the free syllable Ty, which shortens Tyler and Tyrone and is otherwise meaningless, plus the -ana ending shared with Diana, Ariana and Briana. The two are homographs, not relatives, and no modern bearer descends from the city.
How the name formed
- Tuwanuwa
- Tyana
Related forms: Tyanna · Tyana
Pronouncing Tyana
tee-AH-nuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. A minority say TY-an-uh, keeping the long i of Ty, which matches the spelling's origin more closely.
Nicknames for Tyana
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
- 1963
- Most girls named
- 1999144 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1279reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- +12.5%18 in 2025, from 16
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.
Tyana in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tyanna in English — spelling variant
- Tyana in Greek — related form
Tyanas among us
people named Tyana are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 89,293 born in 2025 was named Tyana
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Tyana
- #6325
- Tyana on the 2025 chart
- #428
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tyana went to 18 girls in 2025, but Tiana, Tianna and Tyanna and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 661, which makes it the 428th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,897 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 2,432 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 89,293 for Tyana 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 Keith test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tyana's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Keith climbed just as high around 1968, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Keith's path sketches the road Tyana is walking now.
Tyana 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
Tyana beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tyana in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two ready short forms, Ty and Ana, in completely different registers.
- Fits the Diana and Ariana rhythm, so it never sounds unfamiliar.
- Rare in the United States while being easy to say and to spell.
- Two pronunciations circulate, tee-AH-nuh and TY-an-uh.
- Tiana, Tyanna and Tianna are all near neighbors in the records.
- The ancient city is a coincidence, not an origin, and should not be claimed as one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tyanas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,700 people named Tyana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Tyana?
- Tyana is one of 6 recorded spellings. Tiana is the more common one — 491 births in 2025 against 18 for Tyana.
- How popular is the name Tyana in 2025?
- Tyana ranks #6325 among US girl names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tyana?
- About 1 in every 89,293 US girls born in 2025 was named Tyana — 18 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tyana with classmates?
- Tyana will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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