Updated June 9, 2019 Share: Boy name origins & meanings Old English : River Boy name variations Tyne Tain 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.