Tyrell
Masculine · “stubborn”
Tyrell is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 16,070 boys against 145 girls since 1880.
Tyrell is a Norman surname from a byname meaning stubborn — the man who shot William Rufus in the New Forest carried it, and then rode very fast for France.
How old is the name Tyrell?
Tyrell first appears in US birth records in 1947 — 78 years ago. The typical Tyrell alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 15,500 people named Tyrell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tyrell most popular?
Tyrell peaked in 1992, reaching #354 nationally. Today it ranks #1959, 1,605 places below that high. See the whole 1992 chart.
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Where it comes from
From tirer to Tyrell
The story of Tyrell
Walter Tirel was hunting with William II in 1100 when the king was killed by an arrow; Tirel fled to France immediately and never returned, which was read then and since as an admission. The surname reached America and entered given-name use in the twentieth century, rising sharply from the 1970s. It is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
stubborn, one who pulls
From the Old French tirel, a byname for a stubborn person, built on tirer, 'to pull' — the image is of an animal that will not be led. A second route derives it from a place name. The tirer reading is the commoner and better documented one.
How the name formed
- tirer
- tirel
- Tyrell
Related forms: Tirel · Tyrrell · Terrell
Pronouncing Tyrell
ty-REL
Two syllables, stress on the second. Terrell is TER-ul with the stress at the front.
Nicknames for Tyrell
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
- 1947
- Most boys named
- 1992669 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #354reached in 1992
- Change vs 2024
- −21.2%78 in 2025, from 99
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.
Tyrell in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tirel in French — related form
- Tyrrell in English — spelling variant
- Terrell in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas.
Tyrells among us
people named Tyrell are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 21,898 born in 2025 was named Tyrell
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Tyrell
- #1959
- Tyrell on the 2025 chart
- #825
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tyrell went to 78 boys in 2025, but Tyrel and Tirrell are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 103, which makes it the 825th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,134 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 16,583 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 21,898 for Tyrell 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 Errol test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tyrell's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Errol climbed just as high around 1941, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Errol's path sketches the road Tyrell is walking now.
Tyrell 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 Tyrell is headed
Tyrell should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Tyrell beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tyrell in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A genuinely notorious moment of English history stands behind it.
- Ty and Rell are two short forms, both with real records.
- The end stress gives it a strong rhythm against a front-stressed surname.
- The stubborn reading is not flattering, though it is the documented one.
- Terrell and Tyrrell are both close and equally established.
- It is closely dated to the later twentieth century in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tyrells are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 15,500 people named Tyrell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Tyrell?
- Tyrell is the most-used spelling in US records — 78 of the 103 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Tyrel and Tirrell.
- How popular is the name Tyrell in 2025?
- Tyrell ranks #1959 among US boy names in 2025, with 78 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tyrell?
- About 1 in every 21,898 US boys born in 2025 was named Tyrell — 78 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tyrell with classmates?
- Tyrell will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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