Tyrone
Masculine · “Eoghan's land”
Tyrone is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 79,437 boys against 709 girls since 1880. See Tyrone as a girl name
Tyrone is an Irish county that became an American man's name and never went home: it is common in the United States and almost unheard of as a first name in Ireland. The county's own history is the reason a great many American families have Ulster surnames.
How old is the name Tyrone?
Tyrone first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Tyrone alive today was born around 1971, making them about 54 years old. About 68,000 people named Tyrone are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tyrone most popular?
Tyrone peaked in 1970, reaching #132 nationally. Today it ranks #1388, 1,256 places below that high. See the whole 1970 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Tír Eoghain to Tyrone
The story of Tyrone
When the Gaelic lords of Ulster left Ireland in the early seventeenth century, their lands were declared forfeit and granted out under a scheme that brought in settlers from lowland Scotland and northern England on condition that they build, farm and defend. That scheme is the origin of the Ulster Scots, and it is why Ulster's religious and political map looks different from the rest of the island. A century later, squeezed by rent increases and poor harvests, very large numbers of those families left again for America, landed mostly at Philadelphia and moved down the valleys into the backcountry, where they became the dominant settler population of Appalachia. Their surnames, their speech, their fiddle tunes and their suspicion of landlords all traveled with them. Two forced migrations, a hundred years apart, put an Ulster county's name onto American birth certificates.
Meaning
Eoghan's land
The Irish name of the county joins the word for a territory to a personal name, marking the land held by one dynasty. What that personal name itself means is a separate and unsettled question, with a Greek borrowing and a native word for a yew both proposed.
How the name formed
- Tír Eoghain
- Tyrone
Related forms: Tír Eoghain
Pronouncing Tyrone
ty-ROHN
Two syllables with the stress at the back in American English. The Irish pronunciation of the county puts the weight differently and sounds noticeably unlike the American name.
Nicknames for Tyrone
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
- 1914
- Most boys named
- 19692,218 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #132reached in 1970
- Change vs 2023
- −11.4%132 in 2025, from 149
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.
Tyrone in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tír Eoghain in Irish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, California.
Tyrones among us
people named Tyrone are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 12,940 born in 2025 was named Tyrone
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 Freddie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tyrone's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Freddie climbed just as high around 1938, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Freddie's path sketches the road Tyrone is walking now.
Tyrone 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 Tyrone is headed
Tyrone should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High 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.
Tyrone beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tyrone in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Back stress gives the name a firm shape and real carrying power.
- Ty detaches at once and needs no explanation anywhere.
- It names a real place with a documented meaning.
- It is strongly associated with particular American decades and communities.
- In Ireland it reads as a county rather than as a person's name.
- Tyron and Tyrome are both recorded and will be written for it.
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Masculine · #1388 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Tyrones are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 68,000 people named Tyrone are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tyrone in 2025?
- Tyrone ranks #1388 among US boy names in 2025, with 132 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tyrone?
- About 1 in every 12,940 US boys born in 2025 was named Tyrone — 132 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tyrone with classmates?
- Tyrone will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Tyrone
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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