as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname, in origin an occupational name for a tiler (an agent derivative of Old English tigele ‘tile’, from Latin tegula ‘covering’). John Tyler (1790–1862) was the tenth president of the United States. As a girl's name, it was in regular use in North America by the 1980s and soon after spread to other parts of the English-speaking world.
| 335th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 174,885
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 552,315
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Utah
- has the most people named Tyler per capita
- 1994
- marked the height of its popularity
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