Is There a Tison Coat of Arms?
Anyone researching Tison should also look under Tyson. The family name meaning is “Firebrand, or son of Dye”, the same as for Tyson.
- The two spellings differ in a small detail: Tison has “i” where Tyson has “y”.
- Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.
- The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Tison with 1,351 bearers, at rank 19,885. French birth records list 8,523 children named Tison between 1891 and 2000.
Family crest and blazon
A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Tison, so the heraldry linked to Tyson is a starting point, not an automatic right. Want more than a summary? See the Tison family name pack.