Tyrelle
Masculine · “one who pulls”
Tyrelle is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 825 boys against 16 girls since 1880.
The e on the end of Tyrelle does nothing audible. It is a French habit borrowed into American spelling, where a final e signals softness and length without being said, and it is one of the commonest ways a family makes a familiar name its own. The name underneath is the Norman surname Tirel, and the Ty- at the front reads as thoroughly modern even though it is doing nothing new.
How old is the name Tyrelle?
Tyrelle first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Tyrelle alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 800 people named Tyrelle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tyrelle most popular?
Tyrelle peaked in 1991, reaching #2052 nationally. Today it ranks #12008, 9,956 places below that high. See the whole 1991 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Tirel to Tyrelle
The story of Tyrelle
The Ty- opening became one of the strongest in American naming through Tyrone, an Irish county name that became a man's name, and Tyler, a surname that became one. Once the opening was established, it attached to endings freely. Tyrelle sits at the intersection of that habit and the older surname Tyrrell, and the final e is what marks it as a chosen spelling rather than a default. That e also pulls the name toward the girls' side for many American readers, which is worth knowing, since nearly every child given this exact spelling is a boy.
Meaningscholars disagree
one who pulls, or one who is stubborn
If the name descends from the Norman Tirel, the reading is an Old French verb meaning to pull or draw, applied as a nickname. If it was built from the Ty- opening and an -elle ending, no meaning attaches. American records almost certainly contain both, since the two arrived at the same spelling from different directions.
How the name formed
- Tirel
- Tyrrell
- Tyrelle
Related forms: Tirel
Pronouncing Tyrelle
ty-RELL
Two syllables with the stress at the back. The final e adds no syllable and no sound in American English, which is the whole convention it belongs to.
Nicknames for Tyrelle
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
- 1977
- Most boys named
- 199538 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2052reached in 1991
- Change vs 2024
- −37.5%5 in 2025, from 8
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.
Tyrelle in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tirel in French — related form
Tyrelles among us
people named Tyrelle are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 341,615 born in 2025 was named Tyrelle
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 Torris test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tyrelle's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Torris climbed just as high around 1971, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Torris's path sketches the road Tyrelle is walking now.
Tyrelle 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
Tyrelle beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tyrelle in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ty and Rell are both usable and could hardly be more different from each other.
- The stress is unambiguous, which many names of this shape leave to chance.
- It has a real Norman surname behind it, which most of the Ty- names do not.
- Tyrell, Tyrelle, Terrell and Tyrelle's near-twin Tyrelle all appear on records, so the spelling is a permanent footnote.
- The -elle ending reads as a woman's ending to many American ears, and nearly every child with this spelling is a boy.
- It is close to Tyrone in sound and will be confused with it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tyrelles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Tyrelle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tyrelle in 2025?
- Tyrelle ranks #12008 among US boy names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tyrelle?
- About 1 in every 341,615 US boys born in 2025 was named Tyrelle — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tyrelle with classmates?
- Tyrelle will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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