Given name & surname
Tyrrell
“one who is stubborn”·“a powerful man”
Tyrrell is a variant of Terrell. Interpretations include “one who is stubborn” and “a powerful man”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tyrrell is a variant of Terrell. Interpretations include “one who is stubborn” and “a powerful man”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Tyrrell is a variant of Terrell. Terrell has been associated with French and German naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
Possibly from Old French tirel (“an animal which pulls on the reins”), from Old Norse Þórr.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1940. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tyrrell through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 668
- 668 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 31 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 31 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 569 as a first name in 2020; 5,549 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tyrrell’s family of names
Tyrrell has a related form in Terrell.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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