Tylar
Masculine · “one who lays tiles”
Tylar is given to both — 1,633 boys and 1,351 girls since 1880. See Tylar as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Tylar is a roofer. Tyler is one of the plainest occupational surnames English has — a tyler laid roof tiles, and the word is the same one, from the Latin for a tile by way of Old English. The -ar ending in this spelling is a modern American substitution that leaves the sound exactly where it was.
How old is the name Tylar?
Tylar first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Tylar alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 1,600 people named Tylar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tylar most popular?
Tylar peaked in 1997, reaching #1151 nationally. Today it ranks #10695, 9,544 places below that high. See the whole 1997 chart.
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Where it comes from
From tigele to Tylar
The story of Tylar
Occupational surnames were among the first English surnames to become fixed, because a trade was the most useful thing to know about a man in a village with three Johns. Tyler went to America and became a first name in the ordinary way, and it became a very widely used one, moving toward girls as well. The -ar ending arrived with the general American habit of respelling -er as -ar, which turns up in Skylar, Tylar and Rylar and is doing exactly one thing: making the name look like a first name rather than a surname.
Meaning
one who lays tiles
Old English tigele, a tile, comes from Latin tegula, from a verb meaning to cover — the same root as toga, which covers a person. A tyler was the tradesman who covered a roof, and the surname is one of a large family of English occupational names alongside Thatcher, Slater, Mason and Wright. The derivation is not disputed. The name also survives in Freemasonry, where the Tyler is the officer who guards the door, on the same idea of covering.
How the name formed
- tigele
- Tyler
- Tylar
Pronouncing Tylar
TY-lur
TY-lur, two syllables, stress at the front, the second vowel reduced to almost nothing — which is exactly why -er and -ar are interchangeable here and why both spellings exist.
Nicknames for Tylar
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
- 1980
- Most boys named
- 1997107 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1151reached in 1997
- Change vs 2024
- +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.
Tylars among us
people named Tylar are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 284,679 born in 2025 was named Tylar
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 Creighton test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tylar's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Creighton climbed just as high around 1944, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Creighton's path sketches the road Tylar is walking now.
Tylar 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
Tylar beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tylar in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It has a plain, documented English trade behind it rather than a reconstructed meaning.
- Ty is available as a short form and is a complete name on its own.
- It goes to boys and girls in close to equal numbers, which few names actually do.
- Tyler is the standard spelling by an enormous margin, and this one will be rewritten as that everywhere.
- The -ar ending is inaudible, so the spelling has to be dictated every time and will still come back wrong.
- Because the split between boys and girls is close to even, forms and lists will guess wrong in both directions.
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Masculine · #10695 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Tylars are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Tylar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tylar in 2025?
- Tylar ranks #10695 among US boy names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tylar?
- About 1 in every 284,679 US boys born in 2025 was named Tylar — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tylar with classmates?
- Tylar will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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