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Tiago

#1,117 in 2025Boys' name

Form of James

Tiago has been given to 3,228 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #1,117 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 216 recorded.

Babies named Tiago, 2025

1 in 17,300

Tiago over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tiago: meaning, origin, and history

Form of James

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tiago means

Tiago is a form of James.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tiago → James → James → Iacomus. The family’s meaning is “supplanter, heel-grabber”, recorded in Latin with the source elements Iákōbos.

Origin, language, and formation

Tiago is used in Portuguese.

Tiago comes through Indonesian Saint James.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include James, Iago, Jacó and Jaime.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Tiago is pronounced /t͡ʃiˈa.ɡu/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,228 boys were recorded with the name Tiago between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 216 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,028 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,341 in 2020 to #1,117 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,173 in 2015 to #1,117 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tiago?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,300
192 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,900
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,117
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,969 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tiago sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,969 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tiago. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tiagos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tiago was born before 2016 — so the typical Tiago is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,228
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (1,327).

Is Tiago rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+37
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+224
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+56
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.21×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.9%
Peak was 2022 (216)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,028
2022

Spellings of Tiago

Tiago is not the most common spelling — Diego is, with 72.3% against Tiago's 1.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tiago is used

Across 2016–2025, Tiago was most concentrated in Rhode Island — about 1 in 3,448 boys, against 1 in 10,254 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

129 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Rhode Island1 in 3,448
  2. 2Florida1 in 4,762
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 4,762
  4. 4California1 in 6,250
  5. 5Texas1 in 8,333
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 9,091
  7. 7New York1 in 11,111
  8. 8Colorado1 in 12,500

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Tiago around the world

Where Tiago ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #578
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2007–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1971–2025
    #79
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #641
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Tiago

People whose public names include Tiago, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tiago in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tiago. Linked forms have their own page here.

DiegoDiogoJaimeThiagoYaacovSantiagoJaumeChaime

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tiago by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,117
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 224
Best rank ever
#1,028
2022
Peak year
2022
216 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,228
Count in 2025
192

Names similar to Tiago

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

TianDiagoTiamYagoThiagoDragoDagoTiantTiaraIagoThyagoSanthiagoTiawanChicagoDeagoTiaanJagoTianoTiandreTiaSantiagoTianyiTianaTihago

Names with a curve like Tiago

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tiago, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

YaseenSyncereYeshuaJosiasLaithZakariyaAdlerJesiahAdielIsaKooperKolt

Sibling names for Tiago

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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