Name meaning and origin

Tyler

English: Tiler, maker or layer of tiles

Pronounced TY-lər

Where the name comes from

  • English
    Tiler, maker or layer of tiles
    Old English tigele "tile" < Latin tegula
    A given name taken from an English occupational surname for a roof tiler (Reaney & Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames, Oxford 1997, p. 447; Hanks & Hodges 1998, p. 533).

Tyler across traditions

  • United States. SSA #9 boys’ name of the 1990s (262,320 births) and #16 of the 2000s; 792 New Mexico boys in 2000–2009.

Forms in other languages

Tylor, Tiler

Tyler in letter-number systems

Hebrew, Greek and other traditions gave every letter a number, and read meaning into the totals. These are the counts, computed; the readings are inside the Innerverse.

254
Hebrew Standard
2
Hebrew Ordinal
80
English Simple
480
English Sumerian
55
English Reverse
835
Greek Isopsephy
6
Chaldean
8
Pythagorean

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