Updated June 9, 2019 Find Baby Names Boy name origins & meanings Old English : River Boy name variations Tyne Tyne - 14% this year Neutral Rare READ MORE DETAILS Tain Tain 0 % this year Masculine Rare READ MORE DETAILS Family name origins & meanings Italian (Sicily; Tinè) : most probably an occupational name for a comb maker, from a reduced form of medieval Greek kteneas, from ktenion ‘comb’ + the occupational suffix -eas.English (mainly Yorkshire) : variant of Tyne.Perhaps also an Americanized spelling of German Thein.