I’m starting to fall in love with the name [name]Tyrone[/name] <3 I’m thinking it would probably just be a middle name option, but it’s so handsome I can’t help but appreciate it 
What do you guys think?
I don’t think it’s a bad name. It’s just unfortunately on my no-list because of connections I have in real life to people named [name]Tyrone[/name]. I hate when someone from your past ruins a perfectly good name! 
I’m hoping you don’t mind total honesty…I think it’s awful. It seems ultra-downmarket to me, and I’m not sure why. 
That happened to me with [name]Brandon[/name] and [name]Colton[/name]! Fortunately, they’re not really my style anyways … but I might have wanted to use [name]Brandon[/name] one day, and I can’t because I’ve met too many evil Brandons.
I don’t mind total honesty … I just don’t understand what “ultra-downmarket” means.
[name]Tyrone[/name] was once a great Irish name (I still think of the multiple generations of men in the Irish-American acting family who were called [name]Tyrone[/name] [name]Power[/name] - all darkly handsome). Since about 1960, it has become a favourite among the African-American community. I haven’t been able to figure out why it switched over from one culture to another (maybe African-Americans like the “[name]Ty[/name]” names?). I think it still sounds pretty slick and sophisticated but then the acting family are the only ones I’ve known with the name.
I’ve known several in my life, some very nice but it’s just not a pretty name to me. It’s like [name]Virgil[/name] or [name]Lloyd[/name] or [name]Marcus[/name]–just not my style.
Sorry - by ‘downmarket’, I mean kind of cheap. Tacky. Lower-class (although that just sounds like a horribly snotty thing to say, so I was trying to avoid that one). Ultra = very. So I just meant, it sounds the opposite of classy.
I’m from [name]Philadelphia[/name]. I’ve known and liked many Tyrones, and [name]Tyrone[/name] is what spun-off the younger forms of [name]Tyrese[/name] and [name]Tyriq[/name]… and I would consider it if I thought my kid could pull it off, but I will say I would not want to grow up in [name]Philadelphia[/name] named [name]Tyrone[/name] if I were a white boy.
Not everyone would take it well. There is the element of black people thinking you’re making fun, and the element of other groups making racist assumptions about him when they just see the name on school lists and so on. Growing up I knew (nasty) people who used [name]Tyrone[/name], like [name]Leroy[/name], as a generic, like “[name]John[/name] [name]Doe[/name]” for the ghetto. [name]Tyrone[/name] and [name]Leroy[/name] are probably THE two most common male names for that and I’m not sure I’d be up for using either, particularly without a family connection if I weren’t black.
I guess it depends a lot where you live. I don’t know how it is perceived in [name]Ireland[/name], for instance.
Not everyone would take it well. There is the element of black people thinking you’re making fun, and the element of other groups making racist assumptions about him when they just see the name on school lists and so on. Growing up I knew (nasty) people who used [name]Tyrone[/name], like [name]Leroy[/name], as a generic, like “[name]John[/name] [name]Doe[/name]” for the ghetto. [name]Tyrone[/name] and [name]Leroy[/name] are probably THE two most common male names for that and I’m not sure I’d be up for using either, particularly without a family connection if I weren’t black.
yup. would never name a white boy tyrone!
Hmm, that’s interesting … I heard it on a British soap-opera, and I can tell you he is 100% white. Although his character came on the show about 10 years ago (maybe 15), so I don’t know if that makes a difference.
I’ve known a LOT of Ty__s- [name]Tyler[/name], [name]Tyree[/name], [name]Tyrone[/name], Tyshon, Tywan (like Taiwan,) [name]Tyreese[/name]- mostly in their 20’s and yes, almost all black. It’s also quite a dated name to me. I really see the Ty_s as a phenomenon that caught on with my generation and I have a difficult time picturing the name on a baby.
I love [name]Tyrone[/name], and it’s on my secret short-list (you found it!) As someone who’s lived in some very culturally diverse areas, I can tell you that you’ll find an African-American [name]Tyrone[/name] as often as you’ll find a white one. It’s a stereotype.
[name]Tyrone[/name] makes me think of two things: [name]Tyrone[/name] [name]Power[/name], the handsome actor, and the song “[name]Tyrone[/name]” by [name]Erykah[/name] Badu. I think that says it all.
Also: while everyone else is busy naming their kids [name]Zaiden[/name] and [name]Henry[/name], [name]Tyrone[/name] is a way to NOT be trendy and popular.
I don’t care for the sound but my first thought is [name]Tyrone[/name] [name]Power[/name]
As far as it being associated with [name]Black[/name] people, so what? Some say the same about [name]Terrence[/name], [name]Tyson[/name], and [name]Terrell[/name] yet I know little White boys with those names and they fit them perfectly. And I’ve never met a [name]Tyrone[/name] so I don’t attach any race to it.
It does feel dated but it takes people using it to make it fresh again. Look at all the “old people” names that are popular now. Honestly I was surprised by blond, blue-eyed [name]Tyson[/name] but he made the name fresh and unique because you don’t expect a White child to have it
I find it very interesting that I am not the only one who automatically think of a child with black skin when I hear this name. I think it is the [name]TY[/name] at the begining. I’ve never known anyone with this name although i have a cousin (white skinned) name Tyrrell. I had a dinosaur book as a kid and it was about a “bully” dinosaur and his name was [name]Tyrone[/name] the Terrible. I do love the name [name]Tyson[/name] very much though!!
It’s more the British/US than the time. [name]Tyrone[/name] and [name]Siobhan[/name]/[name]Shavonne[/name]/Chevaughn/Sh’vonne have been seen as “black names” a long time at least on the east coast - decades - but they’re just Irish names in terms of etymology.
My husband (Irish-Australian) is mad as hell I will not let him name a daughter [name]Siobhan[/name], hopping mad in fact, because to him it’s just a Gaelic name of which he is fond, but we might want to live back in [name]Philadelphia[/name] at some point. It wouldn’t stand out at all in other places.
The race thing is interesting, if you google [name]Tyrone[/name] and “black name” “baby name” etc, the consensus among blacks and whites seems to be that in the States this is a “black name”, that use by white people would be weird or problematic and that it’s a little dated in the [name]Black[/name] community right now. It even has an urban dictionary entry saying [name]Tyrone[/name] is the general name used for any black make whose actual name you do not know. [1]
Personally my first thought is of [name]Tyrone[/name] [name]Powers[/name] but I’ve never met a white [name]Tyrone[/name] and if someone told me they knew one I would indeed expect this [name]Tyrone[/name] to be black. FWIW the OP didn’t give her race (that I saw) so I’m not sure how this came up or why this race issue would even be problem.
[1]http://m.urbandictionary.com/#define?term=[name]Tyrone[/name]
typing on phone please excuse mistakes and weird autocorrections
Because I was trying to explain why I could say on one hand I liked it and knew several but on the other hand it would be unusable for me, even though my reaction isn’t “ew” like some names. I don’t know if it’s relevant to the OP but when I ask about a name I would like to know stuff like that. Wasn’t trying to be mean or whatever.
Wow, how interesting! I had no idea about the racial connotations. I just think it has a trashy vibe, based on the (white) Tyrones I’ve met in Australia.
That used to be the same for [name]George[/name]. When all railroad porters were [name]Black[/name] men they were all called [name]George[/name] so the White passengers wouldn’t be bothered learning their names
@stripedsocks- I’ve known 1 [name]Black[/name] [name]Siobhan[/name], and many Whites so I don’t see the problem, especially if the kid is part Irish