Tyrone

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tyrone is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 31st most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Eoghan’s land’; from the name of an Ulster county.

rarermore common
  • JMJamaica1 in 2.5K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 6.6K
  • ECEcuador1 in 7.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈55K ●

across 10 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
442 ●

838K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.2K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

TyroneLatin · English●824K records
ไทโรนThai · Thai●5 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

‘Eoghan’s land’; from the name of an Ulster county.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Tyrone is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#51750,502757K rec.1 in 6.6K51KTyrone442
GB United Kingdom#66426,42325K rec.—3Tyrone163
AU Australia#82811,89711K rec.—41Tyrone158
CA Canada#9467,6896.6K rec.—2Tyrone128
PH Philippines—6,0855K rec.——Tyrone83
ZA South Africa—3,6543.5K rec.——Tyrone92
EC Ecuador—2,180△58 rec.1 in 7.8K2.2KTyrone29
IT Italy—2,0002K rec.—1Tyrone25
DE Germany—1,9551.9K rec.—1Tyrone81
JM Jamaica#311,8771.9K rec.——Tyrone18
NL Netherlands—770708 rec.1 in 22K770Tyrone57
GR Greece#940590599 rec.——Tyrone8

Roughly 51K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 6.6K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English824K85%
  • Spanish50K5%
  • 15K2%
  • Portuguese8.4K1%
  • Swahili6.8K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English824,01685%
Spanish49,8175%
14,7212%
Portuguese8,4391%
Swahili6,8491%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Tyrone is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name72K records spelled Tyrone15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Ecuador, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Tÿrönë, Tyröne, Tyroné, Tÿrone, Tyrònë

  • a separate given name16K records spelled Tyrone2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, India

    Also written Tyroné

  • Arabic given name5.0K records spelled Tyrone8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written טיירון, טירון, Tiron, Tayron

  • Russian given name974 records spelled Tyrone11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Tyron, Тайрон, Tayron, Tairon, Таирон

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Tyrone is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Mainly U.S.: from the name of a county in Northern Ireland and a city in Pennsylvania. Its use as a given name seems to be due to the influence of the two film actors (father and son) called Tyrone Power, especially the younger one (1913-58).

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, A placename

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, former county, N. Ireland

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, L borough, PA

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • English (esp. U.S.): from the name of a county in Northern Ireland and a town in Pennsylvania. Its use as a given name seems to be entirely due to the influence of the two film actors (father and son) called Tyrone Power.

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K1920194019601980200020202.5K · 1970

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Tyrone in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1914–2025
Yearrecords
19145
19177
19186
19205
19219
19228
192310
192410
19267
192713
19288
19298
19309
19316
19326
193516
19368
193772
1938208
1939406
1940351
1941346
1942336
1943336
1944312
1945367
1946472
1947629
1948724
1949790
1950815
1951891
1952930
19531,139
19541,223
19551,276
19561,407
19571,408
19581,530
19591,821
19601,599
19611,631
19621,619
19631,609
19641,552
19651,569
19661,615
19671,562
19681,451
19692,218
19702,530
19712,115
19721,840
19731,831
19741,816
19751,682
19761,731
19771,572
19781,435
19791,362
19801,195
19811,211
19821,280
19831,146
19841,059
19851,222
19861,158
19871,149
19881,111
19891,066
19901,029
1991942
1992975
1993900
1994834
1995717
1996681
1997679
1998614
1999556
2000607
2001525
2002451
2003413
2004406
2005407
2006434
2007416
2008372
2009356
2010327
2011272
2012285
2013284
2014270
2015233
2016201
2017204
2018174
2019159
2020165
2021137
2022121
2023149
2024144
2025132

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 106 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Tyrone Power Sr., b. 1869Tyrone Power, b. 1914Dana Rohrabacher, b. 1947Tyrone Power Jr., b. 1959Stephen Colbert, b. 1964Muggsy Bogues, b. 1965Tyrone Hill, b. 1968Dwyane Wade, b. 1982Tyrone William Griffin Jr., b. 1982Tyrone Mings, b. 1993

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 63 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Tyrone
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202051K#894
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20242.2K#455
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010783#29,986
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—770#1,233
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000715#30,753
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020694#35,019
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—438#3,484
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—419#3,129
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025340#286
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022225—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—224#23,360
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—162#28,457

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 611 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tyrone?
We estimate roughly 55 thousand people bear Tyrone (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Tyrone have the most bearers?
We estimate about 51 thousand people bear Tyrone in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tyrone.
Where is Tyrone most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tyrone is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Tyrone compared with other names?
In the United States, Tyrone is the 517th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Tyrone a male or female name?
Tyrone is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Tyrone mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘Eoghan’s land’; from the name of an Ulster county.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tyrone” — the 517th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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