Tye
Masculine · “common pasture”
Tye is given to both — 5,222 boys and 358 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Tye is an old English word for a common pasture — a piece of ground the village shared — and it became a surname for the family that lived beside one. It is also, separately, the short form of half a dozen modern names.
How old is the name Tye?
Tye first appears in US birth records in 1930 — 95 years ago. The typical Tye alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 5,000 people named Tye are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tye most popular?
Tye peaked in 1968, reaching #910 nationally. Today it ranks #3240, 2,330 places below that high. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
From teag to Tye
The story of Tye
Tye Green and similar names dot the east of England, marking land the village held in common, and families living by one took the word as a surname. That line is well documented and medieval. The modern American Tye is largely a different thing: a short, hard, one-syllable name that stands alone or clips a longer one, in the same group as Cy, Ty and Kai. Both lines appear in the records.
Meaningscholars disagree
common pasture
The surname comes from Old English teag, an enclosure or a piece of common grazing land, and survives in Essex and Suffolk place names. The modern given name is at least as often a short form of Tyler, Tyrone or Tyson, in which case it carries their meanings instead.
How the name formed
- teag
- Tye
Related forms: Ty · Tigh
Pronouncing Tye
TY
One syllable, rhyming with eye. Tye and Ty are said identically.
Nicknames for Tye
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
- 1930
- Most boys named
- 2005169 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #910reached in 1968
- Change vs 2023
- −39.0%36 in 2025, from 59
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.
Tye in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ty in English — spelling variant
- Tigh in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Georgia.
Tyes among us
people named Tye are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 47,447 born in 2025 was named Tye
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Porfirio test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tye's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Porfirio climbed just as high around 1903, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Porfirio's path sketches the road Tye is walking now.
Tye 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 Tye is headed
Tye should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Tye beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tye in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable and three letters — about as short and clear as a name can be.
- A documented English landscape meaning stands behind the older line.
- It works as a complete name or as a short form of several longer ones.
- Ty is the more common spelling and the e will be dropped for him constantly.
- It sounds identical to the English words tie and Thai.
- A three-letter name gives no room for a nickname, which some families like and some do not.
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Masculine · #3240 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Tyes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,000 people named Tye are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tye in 2025?
- Tye ranks #3240 among US boy names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tye?
- About 1 in every 47,447 US boys born in 2025 was named Tye — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tye with classmates?
- Tye will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Tye
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