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 [ 2 syll. ty-son, tys-on ] The boy name Tyson is sometimes used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is TAYSahN KEY. Tyson is used chiefly in the English language and its origin is also English. The name's meaning is son of Ty. From the element 'son'. Tison (Old French) is an older form of Tyson. The first name is derived from the English surname. Tie (English), Tye (English), Tysen (English), and Tysone (English) are variants of Tyson. Ty (English short form) is another variant of Tyson. Tyson is popular as a baby name for boys, and it is also viewed as fairly trendy. The name's popularity has been increasing since the 1960s; before that, it was of sporadic use only. At the modest height of its usage in 2008, 0.065% of baby boys were given the name Tyson. It ranked at #249 then. Within the group of boy names directly linked to Tyson, Ty (English and Scandinavian) was the most regularly used in 2008. It was used 1.082% more than Tyson in that year. Tyson has in the past century been mostly given to boys. Baby names that sound like Tyson include Tysen (English), Teagan (English and Irish), Tegan (English), Teshawn (English), Tieshawn (English), Tikhon (Russian), Titian (English), Toussaint (French), Txomin (Basque), Tyquan (English), Tyshawn (English), Tizian (German), Tysone (English), Taziano (Italian), and Tiziano (Italian). KEY: Pronunciation for Tyson: T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; AY as in "hide (HH.AY.D)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"   |
