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Тихон
“lucky”
Тихон (Tíxon) is a masculine given name from Old East Slavic, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Russian and Ukrainian.
Russian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Tihon.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Тихон comes from Old East Slavic, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Ukrainian usage, Тихон developed from Τύχων.
Тихон’s family of names
In Russian usage, Тихон has a diminutive in Ти́ша. In Ukrainian usage, Тихон developed from the Ancient Greek form Τύχων. In Russian usage, Тихон has a conventional equivalent in the French form Tycho.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Тихон has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
11 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Тихон
- Tikhon KhrennikovRussian Soviet composer (1913-2007)
- Tihhon ŠišovEstonian footballer (born 1983)
- Tikhon DzyadkoRussian journalistborn 1987
- Tikhon YudinSoviet psychiatrist1879–1949
- Tikhon AbramovSoviet officer (1901-1991)
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