Tyman
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tyman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: English surname of uncertain origin, possibly from the obsolete Middle English teie (“enclosed field”) + man. Compare Tymon.
- GYGuyana1 in 14K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 190K
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
245 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
English surname of uncertain origin, possibly from the obsolete Middle English teie (“enclosed field”) + man. Compare Tymon.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tyman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 245 | 1 in 1.4M | 246 | Tyman | 6 |
| PL Poland | 201 | 1 in 190K | 101 | Tyman | 14 |
| GY Guyana | 55 | 1 in 14K | 55 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
245 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Tyman is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, alternative form of tīeman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 246 | #73,412 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 245 | #78,040 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 232 | #86,457 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 101 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 101 | #29,844 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 100 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 100 | #29,632 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 55 | #570 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #168,554 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Tyman mean, and where does it come from?
- English surname of uncertain origin, possibly from the obsolete Middle English teie (“enclosed field”) + man. Compare Tymon. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Tyman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 245 people named Tyman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tyman.
- Where is Tyman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tyman is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tyman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 245 people named Tyman in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tymanThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tyman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.