Tilia
Tilia was given to 10 girls in 2025, #10,047 among girls’ names; 132 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tilia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tilia mean?
Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section
Tilia is “a female given name from Norwegian”
Short form of Otilia, a female given name from Latin Otilia, originally Odilia, a Latinised form of Old High German Odila and Otila, pet forms of names such as Oda. The Old High German names are formed from the Germanic name element reflected in *audaz (“wealth, riches”), with a pet-name or diminutive ending. Compare Danish Tilia, Swedish Tilia and English Tilly (“female given name”).
/ˈtɪl.i.a/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tilia?
#10,047 among girls’ names, 2025
Tilia rose from #12,911 in 2015 to #10,047 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 6.2 per million.
11 babies in 2016, the peak
Tilia peaked in 2016, when 11 girls were given it, #10,056 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,047 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,089 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,327 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,940 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,410 | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,634 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,056 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,911 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,884 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 8 | #13,047 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #19,306 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,248 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,815 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,352 | 5.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,493 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,255 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tilia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tilia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tilia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tilia, and how old are they?
An estimated 131 Americans named Tilia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 236 people named Tilia (234 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 98 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,010 babies since 1880, Tilia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 673 babies (1.5%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Tilia
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 Tilia and names like it
- Compare Tilia and TillieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTilia peaked in 2016.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Tilia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tilia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.