Tyrah

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 7 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
7
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Tyrah by the numbers

Tyrah was given to 7 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 63 babies in 1991, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Tyrah

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 Tyrah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Tyragoddess of war; a form of Tyr or Tiara65 in the US (2017)
  • Tylahtile maker or layer; variant of Tyler28 in the US (2017)
  • Tarahstar; a form of Tara16 in the US (2017)
  • Torahinstruction, teaching, the written law14 in the US (2017)
  • Terahwild goat or station5 in the US (2017)
  • Tyran24 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Tyrah

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