Tia
Tia was given to 98 girls in 2025, #1,980 among girls’ names; 33,896 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 32,700 Americans named Tia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 27 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tia is “a female given name.”
Invented in the latter half of the twentieth century. It can be explained as a short form of Letitia or Venetia, or from Estonian Tiia, pet form of Dorothea.
/tiːə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tia?
#1,980 among girls’ names, 2025
Tia fell from #1,182 in 2015 to #1,980 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.06 per 1,000.
1,189 babies in 1982, the peak
Tia peaked in 1982, when 1,189 babies were given it (1,182 girls, #221 among girls’ names). The 98 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,980 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 119 | #1,717 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 136 | #1,565 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 112 | #1,827 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,599 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 162 | #1,356 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 161 | #1,405 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 159 | #1,412 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 187 | #1,267 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 170 | #1,383 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 214 | #1,182 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 197 | #1,238 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 244 | #1,025 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 265 | #965 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 288 | #911 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 257 | #987 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 281 | #952 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 318 | #879 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 395 | #739 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 484 | #601 | 0.25 |
| 2005 | 521 | #553 | 0.28 |
| 2004 | 576 | #506 | 0.31 |
| 2003 | 612 | #482 | 0.33 |
| 2002 | 667 | #435 | 0.37 |
| 2001 | 674 | #422 | 0.37 |
| 2000 | 701 | #406 | 0.39 |
| 1999 | 867 | #347 | 0.49 |
| 1998 | 957 | #314 | 0.54 |
| 1997 | 984 | #291 | 0.57 |
| 1996 | 1,066 | #271 | 0.61 |
| 1995 | 1,015 | #270 | 0.58 |
| 1994 | 922 | #296 | 0.52 |
| 1993 | 952 | #290 | 0.53 |
| 1992 | 964 | #287 | 0.52 |
| 1991 | 1,069 | #261 | 0.57 |
| 1990 | 908 | #304 | 0.48 |
| 1989 | 717 | #358 | 0.39 |
| 1988 | 676 | #362 | 0.38 |
| 1987 | 721 | #340 | 0.41 |
| 1986 | 678 | #351 | 0.40 |
| 1985 | 782 | #310 | 0.45 |
| 1984 | 788 | #305 | 0.47 |
| 1983 | 913 | #263 | 0.55 |
| 1982 | 1,182 | #221 | 0.70 |
| 1981 | 1,010 | #246 | 0.61 |
| 1980 | 1,114 | #231 | 0.67 |
| 1979 | 599 | #376 | 0.37 |
| 1978 | 514 | #401 | 0.34 |
| 1977 | 475 | #426 | 0.31 |
| 1976 | 524 | #393 | 0.36 |
| 1975 | 563 | #368 | 0.39 |
| 1974 | 395 | #457 | 0.27 |
| 1973 | 438 | #438 | 0.30 |
| 1972 | 373 | #480 | 0.25 |
| 1971 | 374 | #507 | 0.22 |
| 1970 | 383 | #514 | 0.22 |
| 1969 | 332 | #539 | 0.20 |
| 1968 | 449 | #455 | 0.27 |
| 1967 | 346 | #511 | 0.21 |
| 1966 | 405 | #471 | 0.24 |
| 1965 | 162 | #782 | 0.09 |
| 1964 | 138 | #887 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 131 | #922 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 144 | #878 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 83 | #1,214 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 95 | #1,115 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 70 | #1,290 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 84 | #1,162 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 113 | #977 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,996 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,615 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,069 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,168 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,974 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,467 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,403 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,402 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,970 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,212 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,643 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,183 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tia has been given almost only to girls: 64 boys in 81 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tia, and how old are they?
32,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 33,896 Americans ever recorded as Tia. The median Tia alive today is 35 years old; half are between 27 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 30,869 people named Tia (30,718 women and girls, 151 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 32,306 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 895 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6,970 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,740 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,080 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Tia born?
The states with the most babies named Tia are California, New York and Florida, with 18% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,058 | #2,263 | 0.5× |
| New York | 1,908 | #2,050 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 1,739 | #2,457 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 1,720 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 1,561 | #1,002 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 1,540 | #3,259 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,488 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 1,435 | #856 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 1,148 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 1,029 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Tia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tia is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1944 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 36,847 babies since 1880, Tia is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 98 of their 117 babies (84%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tia and names like it
- Compare Tia and TyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTia peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tia since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Tia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.