Tykhon
Greek at root, where it means "fortunate" or "lucky". In Poland it stays rare: fewer than 400 men carry it, all of them boys, mostly arriving through Ukrainian families, and hardly anyone gives it now.
Tykhon Pronunciation
Tykhon is pronounced TIHK-khon (/ˈtɨkxɔn/).
What Tykhon means
Where Tykhon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tykhon comes from Greek. Behind it stands Tychon, a name bound to Tyche, the deity who dealt out fortune to mortals, and to the verb tynchanein, meaning to hit the mark or to succeed. From that root comes its short meaning: fortunate, lucky.
Among Ukrainian families the name settled with a distinctly local sound, and its variant Tychon follows the same path with only a shifted consonant. Both keep the same promise. Good luck is the whole of it.
One early bearer fixed the name to a date. Tychon of Amathus, a fourth-century bishop on Cyprus known for his blessing over vineyards, is remembered on 16 June, and that memory kept the name in circulation across Orthodox lands for a long while after. Read off a Ukrainian class register or printed on an imieniny card, Tykhon still spells out the old sense it began with: fortunate.
How many people are named Tykhon
1 in 57382 men in Poland is named Tykhon. 372 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1542 among male names.
Tykhon's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Where Tykhon is most popular
Tykhon is most popular in Lesser Poland, 852% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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Lesser Poland2 boys born+852%