How many Tysens are there in the world?

No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Tysen are estimated to be alive in the US today.

How do you spell Tysen?

Tysen is one of 2 recorded spellings. Tycen is the more common one — 28 births in 2025 against 24 for Tysen.

How popular is the name Tysen in 2025?

Tysen ranks #4249 among US boy names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.

How rare is the name Tysen?

About 1 in every 71,170 US boys born in 2025 was named Tysen — 24 in all.

Will my child share the name Tysen with classmates?

Tysen will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Tysen

Masculine · “firebrand”

Tysen is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,668 boys against 10 girls since 1880.

#4249 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year

rare24 boys in 2025

Tysen is a spelling of Tyson, and the Norman byname behind it is generally read as a firebrand — a hot-tempered person.

How old is the name Tysen?

Tysen first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Tysen alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 1,600 people named Tysen are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Tysen most popular?

Tysen peaked in 2010, reaching #1665 nationally. Today it ranks #4249, 2,584 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.

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Where it comes from

From tison to Tysen

The story of Tysen

Tison appears as a Norman byname in English records after the conquest, and the firebrand reading fits the way bynames worked — they described people bluntly. The surname is common in the north of England. Its use as a given name is American and mid-twentieth-century, and it rose sharply in the 1980s and 1990s; Tysen is one of the respellings.

Meaningscholars disagree

firebrand, hot-tempered

From Old French tison, a firebrand or burning stick, used as a byname for someone quick to anger. A competing reading takes the surname from Dyson, son of Dye, a pet form of Dionisia. Neither is fully settled.

How the name formed

tison
Tyson
Tysen

Related forms: Tyson · Tison

Pronouncing Tysen

TY-sen

Two syllables, first stressed. Tysen and Tyson are said identically.

Nicknames for Tysen

Moderate

TyThe front clip

SonnyTakes the ending

TysA shorter clip used among friends

What the data says

146 years of official birth records

The long climb, and where it stands now

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded: 1974
Most boys named: 201093 — the highest on record
Peak rank: #1665reached in 2010
Change vs 2024: +60.0%24 in 2025, from 15

Tysen sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2010, with 93 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Tysen in other languages

The same name elsewhere

Tyson in English — spelling variant
Tison in French — related form

Tysens among us

1,600

people named Tysen are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 71,170 born in 2025 was named Tysen

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Tysen

#4249
Tysen on the 2025 chart: #876
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tysen went to 24 boys in 2025, but Tycen is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 52, which makes it the 876th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,373 places above the chart.

Tycen28
Tysen24

About 1 boy in 32,848 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 71,170 for Tysen itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

What happens to a name after it peaks

The Kern test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tysen's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kern climbed just as high around 1952, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kern's path sketches the road Tysen is walking now.

40%chance Tysen will feel “very 2000s” by 2040

Tysen, aligned on its peakKern· peak 1952not yet written

Tysen today is about where Kern stood in 1967 — 15 years past a #1665-sized peak. By 1982, Kern had settled around #5909.

Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Tysen sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Tysen beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Tysen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Tysenthis name24#4249Guadalupe24#4249Denny24#4249Hughes24#4249Erling24#4249

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths

A genuinely vivid Norman byname behind one reading.
Ty is a complete short form in very current use.
Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.

What to consider

Tyson is the standard spelling and will be written for him constantly.
A very well-known boxer carries the surname, which is a strong association.
Tysen, Tycen and Tyson are all in use and only Tyson is common.

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Frequently asked

How many Tysens are there in the world?: No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Tysen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Tysen?: Tysen is one of 2 recorded spellings. Tycen is the more common one — 28 births in 2025 against 24 for Tysen.
How popular is the name Tysen in 2025?: Tysen ranks #4249 among US boy names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Tysen?: About 1 in every 71,170 US boys born in 2025 was named Tysen — 24 in all.
Will my child share the name Tysen with classmates?: Tysen will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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