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Tyler-James

Gender
Boy
Say it
TY-ler-JAYMZ
Origin
Modern
UK rank, 2025
#4,301 for boys

Tyler-James is a boys' name of Modern origin, meaning “tile maker + supplanter”. In 2025 it ranked 4,301st for boys in the UK (4 babies).

What does Tyler-James mean?

Modern: blend of Tyler and James

“tile maker + supplanter”

Combines Tyler, an English surname for a tile maker, with James, the English form of the Hebrew name Jacob.

Is Tyler-James a girl's or a boy's name?

Tyler-James is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Tyler-James in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#4,301among boys
Babies in 2025
4about 1 in 75,000 boys
Five-year trend
Falling fastdown 75% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 4 boys in the UK were named Tyler-James, making it the 4,301st most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,412th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 109 boys.

2025 had fewer boys named Tyler-James than any year since 2001.

Half of all the boys named Tyler-James in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among boys in 2025, it was 4,212th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 109 in 20122025
Tyler-James in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20254#4,301
20246#3,335
20235#3,712
20227#2,922
202110#2,257
202019#1,412
201916#1,608
201825#1,173
201724#1,222
201635#956
201543#812
201457#660
201389#487
2012109#418
201171#554
201055#650
200947#718
200833#905
200726#1,031
200625#1,008
200522#1,063
20046#2,399
20037#2,054
20025#2,358
20013#3,255
20000–
19993#3,043
19985#2,170
19970–
19964#2,442

Nicknames for Tyler-James

Names like Tyler-James

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Tyler-James: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tyler-james, updated 20 October 2026.