Tyrie
Masculine
Tyrie is given to both — 851 boys and 41 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Tyrie is Ty- with an -rie ending, and it sits in a set — Tyree, Tyrie, Tyrese, Tyrell — that shares an opening and not much else. Tyree is separately a genuine Scottish surname, which complicates the group considerably.
How old is the name Tyrie?
Tyrie first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Tyrie alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 800 people named Tyrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tyrie most popular?
Tyrie peaked in 1991, reaching #1919 nationally. Today it ranks #5608, 3,689 places below that high. See the whole 1991 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Tyrie
Tiree is a low, treeless Hebridean island famous for its sunshine hours, and its name gave a Scottish surname that emigrated. Ty- is an American naming prefix that appeared in the 1960s and was fully productive by the 1980s. These two things have nothing to do with one another and they arrive at the same letters, which is a situation the birth records cannot resolve. What can be observed is the company Tyrie keeps: it rises in the same years as Tyrell, Tyrese, Tyquan and Tyshawn, which are unambiguously prefix formations, and its 1991 peak sits with theirs rather than with any Scottish community. That is evidence rather than proof, and it is the most the data offers.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source establishes an etymology for the American given name. Tyree is a Scottish surname from the island of Tiree in the Inner Hebrides, whose Gaelic name Tiriodh has no settled derivation; that surname is genuine and reached America. Whether the American Tyrie and Tyree descend from it or are formations on the Ty- prefix cannot be determined, and the two streams are indistinguishable in the record.
Pronouncing Tyrie
ty-REE
Two syllables, stress on the second. Some families say TY-ree with the weight at the front, and the spelling supports both.
Nicknames for Tyrie
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
- 1975
- Most boys named
- 200744 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1919reached in 1991
- Change vs 2024
- +23.1%16 in 2025, from 13
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.
Tyrie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tiriodh in Scottish Gaelic — related form
Tyries among us
people named Tyrie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 106,755 born in 2025 was named Tyrie
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 Gregrey test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tyrie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Gregrey climbed just as high around 1965, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Gregrey's path sketches the road Tyrie is walking now.
Tyrie 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
Tyrie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tyrie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ty is a ready-made short form that everyone knows.
- Six letters and two syllables keep it compact.
- It reads immediately as a name.
- The stress placement is not fixed by the spelling.
- Tyrie, Tyree, Tiree and Tyri are four spellings of nearly one sound.
- The Scottish surname and the American formation cannot be told apart.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tyries 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 Tyrie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tyrie in 2025?
- Tyrie ranks #5608 among US boy names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tyrie?
- About 1 in every 106,755 US boys born in 2025 was named Tyrie — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tyrie with classmates?
- Tyrie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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