Boy
Tyson
Tyson is a boy's name meaning "Old French tison, firebrand", drawing on Old French roots. It is having a real moment, more popular in the 2000s than ever before. These days, it is neither rare nor overly common. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
Old FrenchOld French "tison" – "firebrand"
EtymologyAlso read as "son of Denys"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
65
1920s
91
1930s
48
1940s
111
1950s
174
1960s
560
1970s
5,500
1980s
8,976
1990s
5,168
2000s
11,421
2010s
10,033
Peaked in the 2000s · 42,147 total U.S. births since 1900