Tyshawn

Where Tyshawn comes from

Tyshawn hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1972
    First appearance
    #3,622 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1980
    Tyshawn Sorey born
    American composer and multi-instrumentalist
  3. 1990
    Tyshawn Taylor born
    American basketball player
  4. 2003
    Peak, #840
    207 babies named Tyshawn — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,701.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tyshawn Taylor · American basketball player, born 1990
  • Tyshawn Sorey · American composer and multi-instrumentalist, born 1980

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.