Tyrone
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Eoghan’s land’; from the name of an Ulster county
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/taɪɹoʊn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tyrone is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 47th most common given name.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 3.5K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 492 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘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(measured from records)
Tyrone counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Tyrone | 14 |
| US United States | #520 | 50,642 | 1 in 6.6K | 51K | Tyrone | 492 |
| GB United Kingdom | #644 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 3 | Tyrone | 209 |
| GH Ghana | #164 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Tyrone | 20 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Tyrone | 98 |
| JM Jamaica | #47 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Tyrone | 19 |
| GY Guyana | — | 340 | 1 in 2.2K | 340 | — | 9 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tyrone Power Sr.b. 1869USEnglish-born American stage and screen actor (1869–1931)
- Tyrone Powerb. 1914USAmerican actor (1914-1958)
- Dana Rohrabacherb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician
- Tyrone Power Jr.b. 1959USAmerican actor (1959)
- Stephen Colbertb. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican comedian and writer (born 1964)
- Muggsy Boguesb. 1965USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player-coach
- Tyrone Hillb. 1968USAmerican basketball player-coach
- Dwyane Wadeb. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1982)
- Tyrone William Griffin Jr.b. 1982USAmerican singer and rapper (born 1982)
- Tyrone Mingsb. 1993GBEnglish association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 66 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 51K | #894 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 340 | #286 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 140 | #894 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 132 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2019 | 3 | #701 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2004 | 3 | #305 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tyrone mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Eoghan’s land’; from the name of an Ulster county. Recorded by Irish first names.
- What are other forms of the name Tyrone?
- In the etymology graph, Tyron is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tyrone have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 147 thousand people named Tyrone in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tyrone.
- How do you pronounce Tyrone?
- A machine transcription gives /taɪɹoʊn/ (IPA) for English.
- 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.
- How common is the name Tyrone?
- In the United States, the national register counted 50,642 people named Tyrone in 2020, about 1 in 6.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Tyrone compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Tyrone is the 47th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tyrone?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tyroneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 47th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.