Meaning & Origin
A city in Lebanon, a major port on the Levantine Sea that was a city-state in Phoenicia in antiquity and the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the Middle Ages.
Tyre is a boy's and girl's baby name of Phoenician origin, from the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre on the Lebanese coast — one of the greatest maritime cities of the ancient world, whose name derives from the Phoenician sur, meaning 'rock' or 'rocky place.'
Tyre was one of the most powerful city-states of the ancient Mediterranean — the birthplace of the Phoenician alphabet that became the ancestor of all Western alphabets, and the city whose purple dye (Tyrian purple) was so prized it became the color of royalty. As a given name, Tyre carries over three millennia of history in four letters — a name of ancient power and remarkable brevity.