Tyler, a surname-turned-given-name, was originally used as an occupational name given to a roof tiler. The name was ultimately derived from the Old English word tigele, meaning "tile." It started gaining popularity in the mid-1900s and cracked the top-100 for the first time in 1981. Tyler spent six years inside the top-10 from 1992 to 1997. It has slowly declined in popularity since and has fallen out of the top-150 every year since 2021. t's one of the many names that end in -er that are growing in popularity today, such as Oliver, Tucker, Harper, Asher, Carter, Parker, Cooper and Walker.
