Tyrus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of Tyre
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tiɹəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tyrus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 101K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 250K
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
3,294 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of Tyre.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tyrus counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,294 | 1 in 101K | 3.3K | Tyrus | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 8 | 1 in 2.2M | 8 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | — | 6 | — | — |
| NR Nauru | — | — | 1 | — | — |
3,294 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Nauru Electoral Commission — Voter Registration Notifications (Government Gazette 2024-2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tyrus is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Latin: person from Tyre
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In Latin, Tyre (Phoenician city in modern Lebanon)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
'티레(Tyre)'의 옛 이름.
as a word국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ty Cobbb. 1886USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player (1886–1961)
- Tyrus Wongb. 1910USChinese-American artist (1910-2016)
- Tyrus W. Cobbb. 1940USAmerican national security advisor (1940–2024)
- Tyrus Millerb. 1963USresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-0898-8215
- Tyrus McCloudb. 1974USAmerican football player
- Tyrus Thomasb. 1986USAmerican basketball player (born 1986)
- Tyrus Thompsonb. 1991USAmerican football offensive lineman
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.3K | #5,273 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 120 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 108 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 104 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 103 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 101 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 101 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 100 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 95 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 92 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 91 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 88 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tyrus mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Tyre. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Tyrus a male or female name?
- Tyrus 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.
- How do you pronounce Tyrus?
- A machine transcription gives /tiɹəs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tyrus have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Tyrus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tyrus.
- Where is Tyrus most common?
- Tyrus is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 101 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tyrus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,294 people named Tyrus in 2020, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tyrus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tyrusThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Tyrus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.