Tyson
Tyson is a boy's name that peaked in 2009, when it was the 237th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 531st. About 47,000 Tysons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tyson boys named Tyson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 48,713
- Estimated living today
- 47,000
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2009
- Best rank
- 237th
- Rank in 2025
- 531st
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 318 / 48,395
How old the living Tysons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 48,713 babies given the name since 1912, about 47,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 19,000 of them are children and 200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
A variant of Tison. A nickname from Old French tison (“firebrand”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Tysons
- Tyson Gay (born 1982)American sprinter
- Tyson Fury (born 1988)British boxer
- Tyson Chandler (born 1982)American basketball player
- Tyson Beckford (born 1970)American model and actor
- Tyson Kidd (born 1980)Canadian professional wrestler
- Tyson Ritter (born 1984)American singer
- Tyson Barrie (born 1991)Canadian ice hockey player
- Tyson Jost (born 1998)Canadian ice hockey forward
People named Tyson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tyson is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tyson is most concentrated in Utah (9.4×), Idaho (6.7×), Hawaii (3.8×), Oregon (3.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2009
The most popular boys’ names the year Tyson peaked:
Tyson elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Tyson | 720 | 860th |
| England and Wales boys | Tyson | 672 | 601st |
| New Zealand boys | Tyson | 531 | 83rd |
| Belgium boys | Tyson | 128 | 645th |
| Ireland boys | Tyson | 32 | 496th |
| Scotland boys | Tyson | 7 | 599th |
| Poland boys | Tyson | 4 birth registrations | 729th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Tyson | 3 | 418th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Tyson: rank by region
In 2022, Tyson was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Tyson | 866 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Tyson among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Tyson | 21 | 30 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Tyson against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.