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Tyshawn

#3,373 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tyshawn has been given to 5,400 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #3,373 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 224 recorded.

Babies named Tyshawn, 2025

1 in 94,700

Tyshawn over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tyshawn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tyshawn means

Tyshawn is a given name.

The naming story behind Tyshawn

Wikidata records Tyshawn as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q63499689, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,266 boys were recorded with the name Tyshawn between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 224 in 2008; its best national rank was #840 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,067 in 2020 to #3,373 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,789 in 2015 to #3,373 in 2025.

In the United States, 134 girls were recorded with the name Tyshawn between 1972 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1995; its best national rank was #7,017 in 1995.

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.

How common is Tyshawn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 48,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,373
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tyshawn 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 2025 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tyshawn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tyshawns were born

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

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,266
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (1,963).

Is Tyshawn 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
+76
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,306
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,584
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.41×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.6%
Peak was 2008 (224)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#840
2003

Spellings of Tyshawn

Tyshawn is not the most common spelling — Shawn is, with 80.3% against Tyshawn's 1.4%.

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.

Where Tyshawn is used

Across 2016–2025, Tyshawn was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 40,503 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 14,286
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 14,286
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 20,000
  4. 4New York1 in 25,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 25,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 33,333
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Tyshawn around the world

Where Tyshawn 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.

  • Canada
    2009–2014
    #2,672
    in 2014

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Tyshawn

People whose public names include Tyshawn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tyshawn by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,373
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,306
Best rank ever
#840
2003
Peak year
2008
224 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,266
Count in 2025
35

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,017
1995
Peak year
1995
13 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
134
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tyshawn

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

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Names with a curve like Tyshawn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tyshawn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Tyshawn

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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