Tyson

Tyson began as a medieval English surname meaning son of Tye, tye being a Norman French word for a firebrand or possibly a nickname for a spirited man. Mike Tyson gave the name its heavyweight aura in the 1980s, and Neil deGrasse Tyson has since added a layer of astrophysical cool. At rank 460, it sits comfortably inside the American middle chart. Two syllables, a strong front consonant and a soft close, the kind of name that reads as both rough and charming, a boy who can throw a punch and also read poetry. Muscular without menace, modern without strain. A name with kick and warmth.