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Tige
How to Pronounce Tige
Pronounced TYEG /ˈtaɪɡ/Medium
Meaning: Tige is a short nickname-style name from the word 'tiger', pronounced with a long i and hard g; its fame rests on Tige, the talking bulldog in the early-1900s Buster Brown comic strip and shoe advertising.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.
History & Origin
Tige began as a pet form of 'tiger', a common enough nickname for a spirited boy or a pet. Its cultural anchor is Tige, the grinning dog in Richard Outcault's Buster Brown comics and the long-running Buster Brown shoe ads, which kept the name in the American ear for decades.
As an actual first name it was always scarce, showing up thinly from the late nineteen-sixties into the two-thousands with a small peak in the early seventies. It reads as a folksy nickname-name rather than a formal given name.
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Frequently Asked
What does the name Tige mean?
Tige is a short name from the word 'tiger', best known as Buster Brown's dog.
How do you pronounce Tige?
It's said TYEG /taɪɡ/ - one syllable, rhyming with 'oblige' without the last sound.
Is Tige a boy or girl name?
Tige is used as a boy's name.
How popular is Tige?
Tige has always been very rare as a given name in the U.S., better known as a comic-strip dog.