Meaning not yet researched.
Tia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 98 in 2025. Its best rank was #221 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #221 in 1982; #1,980 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,980 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #221.
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Tia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 98 girls in 2025. Peak: #221 in 1982 · most girls in one year: 1,182 (1982).
In 2025, 98 US girls were named Tia, making it the 1,980th most common girls’ name of the year, down 263 places from #1,717 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 119 girls named Tia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #221, reached in 1982. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,182. For comparison, it was #1,182 in 2015 and #3,404 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tia in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 5 babies. In all, 33,896 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 9,715 babies named Tia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,436 US girls were named Tia; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 187. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,401 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tia ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #856 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tatiana (35,269 babies since 1880), Tea (2,493 babies since 1880), Ty (48,344 babies since 1880) and Thea (20,118 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Teah, Teia and Tiah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Teah (1,409), Teia (1,056), Tiah (571), Tiyah (89), Thiya (75), Tigh (34), Tiaa (29), Teiya (16), Teiah (11), Tiaya (5), Tiiu (5), Teha (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 9 | #856 | #659 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #972 | #740 |
| Illinois | 9 | #1,002 | #979 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #1,029 | #936 |
| New York | 6 | #2,050 | #1,010 |
| California | 9 | #2,263 | #1,724 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,457 | #902 |
| Texas | 6 | #3,259 | #1,402 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 2024 | 119 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 2023 | 136 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 2022 | 112 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 2020 | 162 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 2019 | 161 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 2018 | 159 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 2017 | 187 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 2016 | 170 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 2015 | 214 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 2014 | 197 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 2013 | 244 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 2012 | 265 | #965 | — | — |
| 2011 | 288 | #911 | — | — |
| 2010 | 257 | #987 | — | — |
| 2009 | 281 | #952 | — | — |
| 2008 | 318 | #879 | — | — |
| 2007 | 395 | #739 | — | — |
| 2006 | 484 | #601 | — | — |
| 2005 | 521 | #553 | — | — |
| 2004 | 576 | #506 | — | — |
| 2003 | 612 | #482 | — | — |
| 2002 | 667 | #435 | — | — |
| 2001 | 674 | #422 | — | — |
| 2000 | 701 | #406 | — | — |
| 1999 | 867 | #347 | — | — |
| 1998 | 957 | #314 | — | — |
| 1997 | 984 | #291 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,066 | #271 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,015 | #270 | — | — |
| 1994 | 922 | #296 | — | — |
| 1993 | 952 | #290 | 6 | #8,605 |
| 1992 | 964 | #287 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,069 | #261 | 5 | #9,504 |
| 1990 | 908 | #304 | — | — |
| 1989 | 717 | #358 | 8 | #6,182 |
| 1988 | 676 | #362 | — | — |
| 1987 | 721 | #340 | 7 | #6,033 |
| 1986 | 678 | #351 | 6 | #6,654 |
| 1985 | 782 | #310 | 5 | #7,496 |
| 1984 | 788 | #305 | — | — |
| 1983 | 913 | #263 | 10 | #4,119 |
| 1982 | 1,182 | #221 | 7 | #5,571 |
| 1981 | 1,010 | #246 | — | — |
| 1980 | 1,114 | #231 | 10 | #4,105 |
| 1979 | 599 | #376 | — | — |
| 1978 | 514 | #401 | — | — |
| 1977 | 475 | #426 | — | — |
| 1976 | 524 | #393 | — | — |
| 1975 | 563 | #368 | — | — |
| 1974 | 395 | #457 | — | — |
| 1973 | 438 | #438 | — | — |
| 1972 | 373 | #480 | — | — |
| 1971 | 374 | #507 | — | — |
| 1970 | 383 | #514 | — | — |
| 1969 | 332 | #539 | — | — |
| 1968 | 449 | #455 | — | — |
| 1967 | 346 | #511 | — | — |
| 1966 | 405 | #471 | — | — |
| 1965 | 162 | #782 | — | — |
| 1964 | 138 | #887 | — | — |
| 1963 | 131 | #922 | — | — |
| 1962 | 144 | #878 | — | — |
| 1961 | 83 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 1960 | 95 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1959 | 70 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 1958 | 84 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1957 | 113 | #978 | — | — |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,997 | — | — |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,169 | — | — |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,468 | — | — |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,404 | — | — |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,972 | — | — |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,214 | — | — |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,644 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,185 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).