Tisha
Tisha was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,303 among girls’ names; 9,552 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,960 Americans named Tisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 44 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tisha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tisha is “a diminutive of the female given name Letitia.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tisha?
#6,303 among girls’ names, 2025
Tisha rose from #9,433 in 2015 to #6,303 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 11.8 per million.
868 babies in 1971, the peak
Tisha peaked in 1971, when 868 girls were given it, #311 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,303 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,897 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,331 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,164 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,349 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,896 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,412 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,729 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,778 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,202 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,433 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,924 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,189 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,370 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,104 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,184 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,655 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,046 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,303 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,839 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,423 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,536 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,568 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,669 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,671 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,474 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,955 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,344 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,868 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,665 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,663 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 100 | #1,551 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 146 | #1,191 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 111 | #1,444 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 102 | #1,529 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 122 | #1,325 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 105 | #1,422 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 140 | #1,111 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 123 | #1,190 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 139 | #1,083 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 157 | #980 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 179 | #859 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 201 | #789 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 251 | #702 | 0.15 |
| 1981 | 304 | #607 | 0.18 |
| 1980 | 337 | #553 | 0.20 |
| 1979 | 411 | #492 | 0.26 |
| 1978 | 370 | #510 | 0.24 |
| 1977 | 411 | #471 | 0.27 |
| 1976 | 409 | #465 | 0.28 |
| 1975 | 466 | #428 | 0.32 |
| 1974 | 539 | #388 | 0.37 |
| 1973 | 590 | #361 | 0.40 |
| 1972 | 614 | #358 | 0.40 |
| 1971 | 868 | #311 | 0.52 |
| 1970 | 398 | #500 | 0.23 |
| 1969 | 402 | #484 | 0.24 |
| 1968 | 179 | #740 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 130 | #901 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 93 | #1,095 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 95 | #1,078 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 46 | #1,729 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 47 | #1,680 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,942 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 38 | #1,891 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,833 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,095 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,854 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,476 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,172 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,363 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,142 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,440 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,094 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,475 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,037 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,162 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,580 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,426 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,510 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,796 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,210 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,517 | under 0.01 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,948 | 0.02 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,293 | 0.03 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tisha, and how old are they?
8,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 9,552 Americans ever recorded as Tisha. The median Tisha alive today is 50 years old; half are between 44 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 8,558 people named Tisha (8,543 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,051 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 299 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,890 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,250 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 166 |
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 Tisha born?
The states with the most babies named Tisha are California, Texas and New York, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 962 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 636 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 608 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 516 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 365 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 275 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 258 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 253 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 251 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 231 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Tisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tisha is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 Tisha 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 22,272 babies since 1880, Tisha is the most given (43% of them).
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 Tisha
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 Tisha and names like it
- Compare Tisha and TyeshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTisha peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Tisha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tisha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.