Tylah
Feminine
Tylah is a modern name with an Australian accent to it: the Ty- opening that English-speaking countries have used for forty years, and the silent h that American and Australian families both add to soften a name that ends in a vowel. It has no ancestors, and it does not pretend to.
How old is the name Tylah?
Tylah first appears in US birth records in 1991 — 34 years ago. The typical Tylah alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 700 people named Tylah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tylah most popular?
Tylah peaked in 2015, reaching #4144 nationally. Today it ranks #4758, 614 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Tylah
The silent h at the end of a girl's name is one of the small, telling habits of recent naming: Aaliyah, Nyah, Mariah, Tylah. It does nothing to the sound and everything to the look, giving a short name a longer shadow on the page. Put it on Ty, which was already circulating everywhere as an opening, and the result is a name that is soft, quick and entirely of its moment. Australia took to it particularly, and it crossed to American records from there as much as it was invented here.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Nothing inherited. Tyla and Tylah appear in Australian and American records from the late twentieth century with no source language attached. Taylor is sometimes offered as a parent and cannot be shown; the two share only their opening.
Pronouncing Tylah
TY-luh
Two syllables, stress in front, the first said like the word tie. The h at the end is silent.
Nicknames for Tylah
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
- 1991
- Most girls named
- 201535 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4144reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- −6.7%28 in 2025, from 30
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.
Tylah in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York.
Tylahs among us
people named Tylah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 57,402 born in 2025 was named Tylah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Tylah
- #4758
- Tylah on the 2025 chart
- #790
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tylah went to 28 girls in 2025, but Tyla is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 170, which makes it the 790th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,968 places above the chart.
- Tyla142
- Tylah28
About 1 girl in 9,455 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 57,402 for Tylah 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 Richa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tylah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Richa climbed just as high around 1998, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Richa's path sketches the road Tylah is walking now.
Tylah 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 Tylah is headed
Tylah 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.
Tylah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tylah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is short, soft and easy for very young children to say.
- Ty works as a short form and needs no explaining.
- The spelling is phonetic apart from the silent h, which most people guess correctly.
- Tyla without the h is equally common, so the spelling will be asked for.
- It has no documented history at all, only a decade and a habit.
- Ty is used for boys and girls alike, so the short form does not carry the name's own reading.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tylahs 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 Tylah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Tylah?
- Tylah is one of 2 recorded spellings. Tyla is the more common one — 142 births in 2025 against 28 for Tylah.
- How popular is the name Tylah in 2025?
- Tylah ranks #4758 among US girl names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tylah?
- About 1 in every 57,402 US girls born in 2025 was named Tylah — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tylah with classmates?
- Tylah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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