Tyran
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tyran is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- USUnited States1 in 250K◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 94K
- GYGuyana1 in 111K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.3K ◐
- Sources
- 96 ●
- 1 in 94K ◐
across 12 countries
15K records
Official registry-verified
South Africa
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈1.3K | 13K rec. | 1 in 250K | 1.6K | Tyran | 96 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈600△ | 256 rec. | 1 in 94K | — | Tyran | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈142 | 416 rec. | 1 in 462K | — | Tyran | 29 |
| AU Australia | ≈125 | 455 rec. | 1 in 204K | 1 | Tyran | 25 |
| CA Canada | ≈48 | 151 rec. | 1 in 780K | 6 | Tyran | 12 |
| DE Germany | ≈23 | 40 rec. | 1 in 3.4M | 1 | Tyran | 12 |
| PH Philippines | ≈20 | 23 rec. | 1 in 5.4M | — | Tyran | 3 |
| BE Belgium | ≈19 | 27 rec. | 1 in 605K | 2 | Tyran | 4 |
| SG Singapore | ≈9 | 15 rec. | 1 in 672K | — | Tyran | 2 |
| GY Guyana | ≈7 | 12 rec. | 1 in 111K | 10 | Tyran | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈6 | 9 rec. | 1 in 499K | — | Tyran | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈4 | 9 rec. | 1 in 4.9M | 7 | Tyran | 5 |
Roughly 1.3K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 250K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English13K96%
- Spanish2302%
- French421%
- Dutch361%
- Italian341%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 13,391 | 96% |
| Spanish | 230 | 2% |
| French | 42 | 1% |
| Dutch | 36 | 1% |
| Italian | 34 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1954 | 9 |
| 1955 | 15 |
| 1956 | 6 |
| 1957 | 8 |
| 1959 | 6 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1961 | 8 |
| 1962 | 12 |
| 1963 | 6 |
| 1964 | 6 |
| 1965 | 8 |
| 1966 | 8 |
| 1967 | 11 |
| 1968 | 11 |
| 1969 | 15 |
| 1970 | 17 |
| 1971 | 21 |
| 1972 | 27 |
| 1973 | 28 |
| 1974 | 23 |
| 1975 | 31 |
| 1976 | 28 |
| 1977 | 21 |
| 1978 | 66 |
| 1979 | 33 |
| 1980 | 21 |
| 1981 | 22 |
| 1982 | 28 |
| 1983 | 27 |
| 1984 | 25 |
| 1985 | 30 |
| 1986 | 26 |
| 1987 | 24 |
| 1988 | 29 |
| 1989 | 37 |
| 1990 | 34 |
| 1991 | 38 |
| 1992 | 58 |
| 1993 | 36 |
| 1994 | 56 |
| 1995 | 67 |
| 1996 | 67 |
| 1997 | 64 |
| 1998 | 76 |
| 1999 | 73 |
| 2000 | 82 |
| 2001 | 52 |
| 2002 | 36 |
| 2003 | 47 |
| 2004 | 53 |
| 2005 | 54 |
| 2006 | 60 |
| 2007 | 57 |
| 2008 | 51 |
| 2009 | 53 |
| 2010 | 53 |
| 2011 | 49 |
| 2012 | 38 |
| 2013 | 37 |
| 2014 | 42 |
| 2015 | 32 |
| 2016 | 27 |
| 2017 | 24 |
| 2018 | 28 |
| 2019 | 27 |
| 2020 | 23 |
| 2021 | 27 |
| 2022 | 19 |
| 2023 | 21 |
| 2024 | 15 |
| 2025 | 10 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 71 years between 1954–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jean-Robert Tyranb. 1967CHeconomist (Universität Wien)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 23 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,525 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 164 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 164 | #19,776 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 163 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 163 | #19,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 117 | #8,525 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 102 | #158,432 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 100 | #155,682 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 82 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 76 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 73 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 67 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 132 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tyran?
- We estimate roughly 2.3 thousand people bear Tyran (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tyran have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.3 thousand people bear Tyran in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tyran.
- Where is Tyran most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tyran is densest in South Africa — about 1 in 94 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- Is Tyran a male or female name?
- Tyran is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tyran”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.