Tyshon
Masculine
Tyshon is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,411 boys against 11 girls since 1880.
An American's decade of birth can be guessed from their name more reliably than from almost anything else about them. Names date people, and a name that peaks sharply in one decade becomes a birth certificate that the bearer carries for life.
How old is the name Tyshon?
Tyshon first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Tyshon alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 1,400 people named Tyshon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tyshon most popular?
Tyshon peaked in 1996, reaching #1725 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 7,989 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Sean to Tyshon
Our story of Tyshon
The dating effect is strongest for names with sharp peaks. A woman called Linda was almost certainly born in the 1940s or 1950s, when the name was at the top of the list; a Jennifer in the 1970s; a Jessica in the 1980s; an Emily around 2000. The same holds for the invented half of the stock, where a compound like this one has a narrow window and almost nothing outside it. That has consequences the parents rarely consider. A name chosen for distinctiveness is shared with everyone else who chose it in the same five years, so the child is unusual in the country and ordinary in the classroom, and unmistakably dated for the rest of their life. Names that avoid this are the flat ones, in continuous moderate use for centuries: James, Thomas, Sarah, Anna. They tell you nothing about when a person was born, which is exactly why they keep being chosen.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Tyshon has no inherited etymology. It joins the Ty- opening, taken from Tyrone, to an ending written from the sound of Sean or Shaun. Neither element carries meaning here. The peak is 1996, which places it precisely within one naming generation.
How the name formed
- Sean
- Tyshon
Related forms: Tyshaun · Tyshawn
Pronouncing Tyshon
ty-SHAWN
Two syllables, stress on the second. The -on spelling suggests a short o, which is not how the name is usually said.
Nicknames for Tyshon
Moderate
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
- 1973
- Most boys named
- 200055 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1725reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- −65.0%7 in 2025, from 20
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.
Tyshon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tyshaun in English — spelling variant
- Tyshawn in English — spelling variant
Tyshons among us
people named Tyshon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Tyshon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Clancy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tyshon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Clancy climbed just as high around 1955, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Clancy's path sketches the road Tyshon is walking now.
Tyshon 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
Tyshon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tyshon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ty works as a short form and is a name in its own right.
- The stressed ending gives it a firm final beat.
- Both halves are familiar to American readers.
- Tyshaun and Tyshawn are commoner spellings.
- The 1996 peak dates the bearer precisely.
- It has no meaning in any language.
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Masculine · #9714 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Tyshons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Tyshon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tyshon in 2025?
- Tyshon ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tyshon?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Tyshon — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tyshon with classmates?
- Tyshon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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