Tiago
Tiago was given to 192 boys in 2025, #1,117 among boys’ names; 3,228 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,190 Americans named Tiago and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tiago by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tiago mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Tiago is “a male given name, equivalent to English James” Its etymology gives the sense “Saint James” (Santiago).
Back-formation from Santiago (“Saint James”), reinterpreting it as São Tiago rather than Santo Iago by analogy to other saints such as São Mateus, São Marcos and São Paulo. Doublet of Iago, Jacó, and Jaime. Attested as early as 1681 in Almeida’s Bible, although just in the name of the book — the Apostle was still called Jacobo in the body text.
/t͡ʃiˈa.ɡu/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tiago?
#1,117 among boys’ names, 2025
Tiago rose from #1,173 in 2015 to #1,117 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.08 to 0.11 per 1,000.
216 babies in 2022, the peak
Tiago peaked in 2022, when 216 boys were given it, #1,028 among boys’ names. The 192 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 192 | #1,117 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 182 | #1,154 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 212 | #1,033 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 216 | #1,028 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 152 | #1,261 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 134 | #1,341 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 138 | #1,325 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,316 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 122 | #1,427 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 140 | #1,303 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 159 | #1,173 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 142 | #1,262 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 138 | #1,268 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 115 | #1,447 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 112 | #1,467 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 122 | #1,382 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 116 | #1,451 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 97 | #1,618 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,032 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 79 | #1,767 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 71 | #1,831 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,631 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 49 | #2,227 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,540 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,103 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,541 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,467 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,378 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,578 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,191 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,823 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,750 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,958 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,322 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,200 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,639 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,125 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,138 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,869 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,649 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,457 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,148 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,280 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tiago a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tiago has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tiago: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tiago, and how old are they?
3,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,228 Americans ever recorded as Tiago. The median Tiago alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 3,658 people named Tiago (8 women and girls, 3,650 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,152 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 156 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 986 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,050 |
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 Tiago born?
The states with the most babies named Tiago are Florida, Texas and California, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 32 | #554 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 31 | #854 | 1.0× |
| California | 25 | #929 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #520 | 2.3× |
| New York | 7 | #1,556 | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 7 | #662 | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,258 | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 5 | #947 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,145 | 0.3× |
| Utah | 5 | #798 | 0.4× |
Where Tiago is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tiago is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1982 it was given 2.3 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 boys’ 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 Tiago 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 38,794 babies since 1880, Tiago is the second most given (8.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 192 of their 6,032 babies (3.2%), again the second 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 Tiago
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 Tiago and names like it
- Compare Tiago and ThiagoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTiago peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tiago since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Tiago: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Tiago.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tiago alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.