Tyrone (name)
Tyrone Pronunciation Gender Male Related names Tyron
Tyrone is a male given name of Irish origin. The name originates from the toponym County Tyrone in Northern Ireland , which in turn derives from the Irish language Tír Eoghain ("land of Eoghan ").[ 1] [ 2] Tír Eoghain was the name of a Gaelic kingdom of Medieval Ireland. Eoghan is variant of Eógan and Owen , or the Scottish Ewan .[ 3] Tyrone Power (1914–1958),[ 4] Tyrone Power (1797–1841).[ 5] United States , the name has become increasingly popular due to use by African Americans .[ 6]
People
Given name
Tyrone Power Tyrone (producer) (born 1986), Nigerian producerTyrone Berry (born 1987), English footballerTyrone Braxton (born 1964), American football playerTyrone Brunson (musician) (1956–2013), American singerTyrone Bogues (born 1965), American professional basketball playerTyrone Corbin (born 1962), former basketball playerTyrone Davis (disambiguation) , multiple peopleTyrone Garner (disambiguation) , multiple peopleTyrone William Griffin Jr. or Ty Dolla Sign (born 1985), American singerTyrone Guthrie (1900–1971), Anglo-Irish theatrical directorTyrone Hayes (born 1967), American biologist and professorTyrone Howe (born 1971), Irish rugby union playerTyrone Marshall (born 1974), Jamaican footballerTyrone Mings (born 1993), English footballerTyrone O'Sullivan (c. 1945–2023), Welsh trade unionistTyrone Peachey (born 1991), Australian Rugby League playerTyrone Power (Irish actor) (1795–1841), Irish stage actor, comedian, author and theatrical managerTyrone Power (1914–1958), American actorTyrone Power Jr. (born 1959), American actorTyrone Power Sr. (1869–1931), Anglo-American actorW. Tyrone Power (1819–1911), Australian artistTyrone Savage (born 1985), Canadian actorTyrone Tracy Jr. (born 1999), American football playerTyrone Unsworth (2003–2016), Australian suicide victimTyrone Wheatley (born 1972), American football playerTyrone Wheatley Jr. (born 1997), American football playerTyrone Williams (disambiguation) , multiple peopleTyrone S. Woods (1971–2012), U.S. Navy SEAL killed in the 2012 Benghazi attack
Middle name
Fictional characters
Tyrone Biggums , a recurring character on Chappelle's Show Tyrone, the friend of a freeloading boyfriend in Erykah Badu ’s 1997 live hit “Tyrone ” (also covered by My Morning Jacket ).
Tyrone Slothrop , character in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow Tyrone Dobbs , a character on Coronation Street Dr. Tyrone C. Berger, a character in Judith Guest's 1976 novel Ordinary People 1980 film adaptation of the same name
Tyrone, a character from The Backyardigans
Tyrone, or T, a character from Trailer Park Boys
Tyrone, a character in Snatch
Tyrone King, main villain in Dead Rising 2
Tyrone, a character in the cartoon series Baggy Pants and the Nitwits
James, Linda, Jamie, and Edmund Tyrone, characters in Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey into Night
Count Tyrone Rugen, a character from The Princess Bride
Tyrone Shoelaces, the protagonist of Cheech and Chong's "Basketball Jones "
References
^ Sheard, K. M. (2011). Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names Llewellyn Publications . p. 565. ISBN 978-0-7387-2368-6 ^ Sierra, Judy (1997). Celtic Baby Names: Traditional Names from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall & the Isle of Man ISBN 978-0-9636089-5-6 . Retrieved 22 November 2023 . ^ "Eoghan" . Behind the Name . Retrieved 27 October 2022 .^ "Tyrone" . Behind the Name . Retrieved 27 October 2022 .^ Traynor, Jessica (22 January 2019). "Tyrone Power, the actor who humanised the 'stage Irishman' stereotype" . The Irish Times Archived from the original on 12 December 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022 .^ Bertrand, Marianne; Mullainathan, Sendhil (July 2003). "Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination" (PDF) . NBER Working Paper Series . Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research . doi :10.3386/w9873 .
External links
Tyrone Tyrone at Wikimedia Commons
