Tichenor

Tichenor is a variant of Tickner, an English topographic surname for someone who lived at a crossroad or a fork in the road..^[1]

Perhaps more likely origin for the surname is that of a family located in 16th century Sussex, England whose name derives from the village of Itchenor,^[2] on the river Itchen near Chichester. The village was previously named in Anglo Saxon, "Iccen Ora" which translates as "Icca's Landing Place."^[3] "Tichenor" is probably a corruption of "At itchenor," ’T itchenor. ^[4]

Notable people with the surname include:

• Bridget Bate Tichenor (1917–1990), Mexican surrealist painter
• Dylan Tichenor (born 1968), American film editor
• Edna Tichenor (1901–1965), American actress
• George C. Tichenor (1838–1902), member of the Board of General Appraisers
• George H. Tichenor (1837–1923), American physician
• Harold Lee Tichenor (born 1946), Canadian film producer and writer
• Henry M. Tichenor (1858–1922), American writer and magazine writer
• Isaac Tichenor (1754–1838), American lawyer and politician. Governor of and Senator from Vermont
• Isaac T. Tichenor (1825–1902), president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, now known as Auburn University
• Lindsey Tichenor (1977–present), member of the Kentucky state senate
• Martin Tichenor (1625–1681), early colonist and original settler of Newark, New Jersey, origin of surname in U.S.
• Stephen W. Tichenor (1813–1883), judge and mayor of Orange, New Jersey
• Todd Frederick Tichenor (born 1976), American baseball umpire
• Trebor Jay Tichenor (1940–2014), American pianist, composer and a recognized authority on Scott Joplin and the ragtime era
• Vernon Tichenor (1815–1892), American politician
• Walter Reynolds Tichenor (1877–1935), college football player and coach at Auburn and Georgia
• Warren W. Tichenor (born 1960), American diplomat
• Captain William V. Tichenor (1813–1887), founder of Port Orford, Oregon