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Meaning & Origins
From the name of a county in Northern Ireland and a city in Pennsylvania. Its use as a given name seems to be due to the influence of the two film actors (father and son) called Tyrone Power, especially the younger one (1913–58).
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English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, and probably also from a place of the same name in Northamptonshire. Both are named from an Old English wacu ‘vigil’, ‘festival’ (a derivative of wac(i)an ‘to watch or wake’) + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’, i.e. a patch of open land where a fair was held.
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Nicknames & variations
Tyron, Tyronne, Tyrome, Tyrona, Tyronn, Tyronna, Tyronia, Tyronnie, Tyrom, Tyroon
Wakeman, Wake, Wakeland, Wakeley, Wakely, Wakeham, Waker, Wakeford, Wakeling, Wakelin
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