Tyr
Masculine · “god”
Tyr is a Norse god and also, in the plainest possible sense, the word for god. His name descends from the same Indo-European root as Zeus, Jupiter and the Latin deus — one word, four languages, three thousand years.
How old is the name Tyr?
Tyr first appears in US birth records in 2002 — 23 years ago. The typical Tyr is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Tyr are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tyr most popular?
Tyr peaked in 2023, reaching #2113 nationally. Today it ranks #3036, 923 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Tiwaz to Tyr
The story of Tyr
Tyr was a god of law and of single combat, and the story that survives about him is a good one: the gods bind the wolf Fenrir with a ribbon, and Tyr puts his hand in the wolf's mouth as a pledge of good faith, knowing what will happen. He loses the hand. Tuesday is Tyr's day, translating the Latin dies Martis, Mars' day. The name has been in Scandinavian use in small numbers and reaches United States records very recently, through interest in Norse mythology.
Meaning
god
Old Norse Tyr comes from Proto-Germanic Tiwaz, from an Indo-European root meaning the daylight sky and, by extension, a god. The same root gives Greek Zeus, Latin Iuppiter — from Dyeu-pater, sky-father — and Latin deus and divus. It is one of the clearest cognate chains in comparative linguistics, and the reading is documented and undisputed.
How the name formed
- Tiwaz
- Týr
- Tyr
Related forms: Týr · Tiw · Deus
Pronouncing Tyr
TEER
One syllable. Old Norse and modern Icelandic say it closer to TEER with a rounded vowel English does not quite have; American English usually says TIRE or TEER, and both circulate.
Nicknames for Tyr
Limited
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
- 2002
- Most boys named
- 202369 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2113reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −25.9%40 in 2025, from 54
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.
Tyr in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Týr in Old Norse — same name
- Tiw in Old English — related form
- Deus in Latin — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Indiana, Texas, California.
Tyrs among us
people named Tyr are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 42,702 born in 2025 was named Tyr
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 Antwine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tyr's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Antwine climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Antwine's path sketches the road Tyr is walking now.
Tyr 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 Tyr is headed
Tyr looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 25% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium 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.
Tyr beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tyr in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Three letters, one syllable, and easy for a small child to write.
- An exact meaning with one of the best-documented word-histories in any language.
- Ty is a ready short form with a strong independent American record.
- The two pronunciations both circulate and neither is standard in American use.
- It is the name of a god, which some families weigh differently than others.
- Tyr, Tyr and Tiw all appear in writing about Norse mythology and look unrelated.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tyrs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Tyr are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tyr in 2025?
- Tyr ranks #3036 among US boy names in 2025, with 40 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tyr?
- About 1 in every 42,702 US boys born in 2025 was named Tyr — 40 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tyr with classmates?
- Tyr will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Tyr
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