Tyson

Tyson is the 1,240th most common surname in the United States, shared by 27,872 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 10,700.

By the numbers

People: 27,872
Rank: 1,240th
How common: 1 in 10,700
Per 100,000: 9.3

Where the name comes from

A patronymic English surname, variant of Dyson.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Tyson described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 51.5%
Black, not Hispanic 39.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Tyson

Mike Tyson (born 1966)American boxer and media personality
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958)American astrophysicist and science communicator
Cicely Tyson (1924–2021)American actress
Laura Tyson (born 1947)American business academic
Richard Tyson (born 1956)American actor
Hunter Tyson (born 2000)American basketball player
Ian Tyson (1933–2022)Canadian singer-songwriter
Cathy Tyson (born 1965)English actress

People named Tyson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Tyson has been given to 48,713 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2009. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.