Tyisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tyisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,829 babies named Tyisha between 1972 and 2011, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tyisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 105 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tyisha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 755 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tyisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 235 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Tyisha in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tyisha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,829 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.