Meaning not yet researched.
Tisha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #311 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #311 in 1971; #6,304 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tisha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,304 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #311.
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Tisha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 girls in 2025. Peak: #311 in 1971 · most girls in one year: 868 (1971).
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Tisha, making it the 6,304th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,598 places from #8,902 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 12 girls named Tisha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #311, reached in 1971. That year also had the most girls given the name: 868. For comparison, it was #9,438 in 2015 and #3,038 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tisha in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 6 babies. In all, 9,552 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 5,076 babies named Tisha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 131 US girls were named Tisha; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tyesha (4,564 babies since 1880), Tiesha (2,849 babies since 1880), Tyisha (1,829 babies since 1880) and Tesha (1,804 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tysha, Tyiesha and Teasha are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Tish.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tysha (853), Tyiesha (699), Teasha (666), Teesha (478), Tiasha (371), Tyshae (236), Tyshay (207), Tyaisha (120), Teosha (119), Tieasha (118), Tieisha (90), Tihesha (49), and more.
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.
Tisha is listed as a nickname for Latisha.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,304 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,902 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,336 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,169 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,354 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,900 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,417 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,733 | — | — |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,782 | — | — |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,205 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,438 | — | — |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,929 | — | — |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,194 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,375 | — | — |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,108 | — | — |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,188 | — | — |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,658 | — | — |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,050 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,307 | — | — |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,841 | — | — |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,428 | — | — |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,540 | — | — |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,573 | — | — |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,675 | — | — |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,676 | — | — |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,479 | — | — |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,959 | — | — |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,347 | — | — |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,871 | — | — |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,669 | — | — |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1994 | 100 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 1993 | 146 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1992 | 111 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1991 | 102 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1990 | 122 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1989 | 105 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1988 | 140 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1987 | 123 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 1986 | 139 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1985 | 157 | #980 | — | — |
| 1984 | 179 | #859 | — | — |
| 1983 | 201 | #789 | — | — |
| 1982 | 251 | #702 | — | — |
| 1981 | 304 | #607 | — | — |
| 1980 | 337 | #553 | — | — |
| 1979 | 411 | #492 | — | — |
| 1978 | 370 | #510 | — | — |
| 1977 | 411 | #471 | — | — |
| 1976 | 409 | #465 | — | — |
| 1975 | 466 | #428 | — | — |
| 1974 | 539 | #388 | — | — |
| 1973 | 590 | #361 | — | — |
| 1972 | 614 | #358 | — | — |
| 1971 | 868 | #311 | — | — |
| 1970 | 398 | #500 | — | — |
| 1969 | 402 | #484 | — | — |
| 1968 | 179 | #740 | — | — |
| 1967 | 130 | #901 | — | — |
| 1966 | 93 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1965 | 95 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1964 | 46 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1963 | 47 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1961 | 38 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,834 | — | — |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,096 | — | — |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,855 | — | — |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,173 | — | — |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,364 | — | — |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,143 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,442 | — | — |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,095 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,476 | — | — |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,038 | — | — |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,163 | — | — |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,582 | — | — |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,428 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,512 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,798 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,212 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,519 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,099 | — | — |
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).