Boy · Old English
Tyler
Say it: TY-lur
Meaning
From an English occupational surname for a tiler of roofs.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A surname until the 20th century, it was a top-ten US boys' name in the 1990s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1990s
In the United States
- 610,345 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1994, about 1 in 63 boys
- 2,911 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Tylor
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Where this comes from
- English poll taxes and lay subsidy rolls (13th and 14th centuries)
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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