Names That Mean Firebrand

As parents were finding too many Tylers at the neighborhood playground, they began looking to Tyson as an alternative, no longer concerned with possible connections to Mike Tyson or Tyson chicken.

Appealingly boyish a decade ago, less so now.

A very rare respelling of Tyson — notably one that singer LeToya Luckett-Walker chose for her son in 2020.

Since girls have already coopted Tyson (singer Nenah Cherry's daughter, for one), no need to go to these lengths to feminize it.