Baby name
CLASSIC
🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇮🇪 Tyler
/TY · ler/
Meaning
“Tile-maker”
Old English 'tigeler' meaning 'tile-maker', occupational surname conversion popularized 1990s onward as unisex masculine name.
Nicknames
ty
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Tyler exploded as a masculine favorite 1990-2010 in English-speaking countries and remains top-20; now marks millennial generation.
The cultural moment.
Peaked in the United States in the mid-1990s, reaching the top 5 for boys in 1993 and 1994, and has declined steadily ever since, dropping out of the top 100 in 2017. It remains a strong generational marker in the US, UK and Canada.