Tyla
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 42 babies a year in the US.
Tyla by the numbers
In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Tyla. In the US, 42 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 127 babies in 1999, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Tyla
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Tyla. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Talastar43 in England and Wales (2025)
- Taylatailor; a form of Taylor90 in the US (2017)
- Tyragoddess of war; a form of Tyr or Tiara65 in the US (2017)
- Tylarone who tiles; a modern respelling of Tyler43 in the US (2017)
- Tulabalance or equilibrium10 in England and Wales (2025)
- Twylawoven with thread; a form of Twyla8 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Tyla
Names that are said the same way as Tyla, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Tyla
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