Given name
Tikhon
“hitting the mark”
Tikhon is a form of Tycho. One interpretation is “hitting the mark.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tikhon is a form of Tycho. One interpretation is “hitting the mark.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Russian use, Tikhon is used as a form of TycHo.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2016. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tikhon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 2016.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tikhon’s family of names
Tikhon developed from Tycho. Tikhon is a form of Tycho.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tikhon
- Tikhon KhrennikovRussian Soviet composer (1913-2007)
- Tihhon ŠišovEstonian footballer (born 1983)
- Tikhon DzyadkoRussian journalistborn 1987
- Tikhon YudinSoviet psychiatrist1879–1949
- Tikhon AbramovSoviet officer (1901-1991)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.