Tikhon
Only about 80 people in Poland carry Tikhon, every one of them male, so most Poles have never met one. It comes through Russian from a Greek name for good fortune, and a few newborns a year are keeping it alive.
Tikhon Pronunciation
Tikhon is pronounced TEEK-khon (/ˈtikxɔn/).
What Tikhon means
Where Tikhon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tikhon comes from the Greek Tychon, built on tyche, the word for fortune or chance. Tyche was the Greek goddess who dealt out luck to mortals. The name means, plainly, fortune.
A Greek saint, Tychon of Amathus, carried the name into the church calendar. Russian took it up and reshaped it as Tikhon (Тихон). Its best-known bearer is Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, who led the Russian Orthodox Church through the years of the revolution.
In Poland the name is rare. A boy listed as Tikhon on a school register stands out at once among the Jakubs and Antonis. The form keeps no Polish diminutives of its own, so it stays as it is, close to the Greek tyche and its meaning of luck.
How many people are named Tikhon
1 in 266827 men in Poland is named Tikhon. 80 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3987 among male names.
Tikhon's popularity over time
2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1849 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Where Tikhon is most popular
Tikhon is most popular in Łódź, 1605% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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Łódź2 boys born+1605%