Tymon

Boys' name

Form of Timon

Tymon has been given to 527 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Tymon, 2024

1 in 669,000

Tymon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tymon: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Timon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tymon means

Tymon is a form of Timon.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tymon is used in Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɨ.mɔn/ for Tymon.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tymon → Timon. The family’s meaning is “to honour, to esteem”, recorded in the naming reference for Timon.

Origin, language, and formation

Tymon comes through Latin Timon and Ancient Greek Τῑ́μων.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Timon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Tymon is pronounced /ˈtɘ.mɔn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 527 boys were recorded with the name Tymon between 1974 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2005; its best national rank was #3,111 in 1974.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tymon?

Tymon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tymon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tymon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tymons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tymon was born before 2003 — so the typical Tymon is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
527
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (160).

Is Tymon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2005 (24)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,111
1974

Spellings of Tymon

Tymon is not the most common spelling — Byron is, with 12.9% against Tymon's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Tymon around the world

Where Tymon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2025
    #1,406
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2024
    #478
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2010–2024
    #339
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2007–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2022
    #4,191
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2008–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Tymon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,111
1974
Peak year
2005
24 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
527
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tymon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Tymon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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