Tye
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) person who lives by a pasture held in common; (ii) person who lives by a river or on an island
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tye is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 38K
- CACanada≈1 in 76K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 351 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
3,746 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) person who lives by a pasture held in common; (ii) person who lives by a river or on an island
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tye 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 | 3,746 | 1 in 89K | 4.8K | Tye | 351 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 3.1K | Tye | 159 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Tye | 45 |
| AU Australia | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 7 | Tye | 120 |
| CA Canada | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 76K | 1 | Tye | 95 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Tye | 40 |
| IS Iceland | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 1 | — | — |
3,746 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Tye is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, dweller by a common or enclosure (OE tēag); first attested Hugo de la Tye 1230 P (D)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, by a common pasture, ME tye (OE teag). 2. topographic name for someone who lived by a river or on an island, from a misdivision of ME at(te)ye, at(te)ey, cf. Nye and Rye. Vars.: Tey, Tee. Tyers see Tyas
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, Obsolete form of tie.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of teye (“cord, chain”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, plural of tyd (“time”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Christopher Tyeb. 1505GBBritish organist and composer
- Clarrie Tyeb. 1893AUAustralian rugby league footballer
- W. Tyeb. 1925GBbadminton player
- Bik-Kwoon Tyeb. 1947GBChinese American molecular biologist
- John Tyeb. 1976USAmerican lawyer and whistleblower
- Dale Tyeb. 1979NZNew Zealand cyclist
- Kay Tyeb. 1981USAmerican neuroscientist
- Matthew Tyeb. 1986USYouTuber
- Will Tyeb. 1991USAmerican football player (born 1991)
- Joseph Tyeprinter in Wrexham, Wales
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.7K | #8,756 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.6K | #8,636 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.6K | #8,410 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 3.1K | #2,539 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Tye mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) person who lives by a pasture held in common; (ii) person who lives by a river or on an island Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Tye?
- In the etymology graph, Thie is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Tye?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tye have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Tye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tye.
- How common is the name Tye?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,746 people named Tye in 2010, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tyeThe 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, “Tye”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.