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Tisa

Girls' name

Possibly yew tree

Tisa has been given to 1,447 babies in the U.S. since 1948. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1970, with 144 recorded.

Babies named Tisa, 2021

1 in 678,000

Tisa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tisa: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly yew tree

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tisa means

Tisa may mean “yew tree”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tisa is used in Slovene.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,447 girls were recorded with the name Tisa between 1948 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 144 in 1970; its best national rank was #912 in 1970.

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.

How common is Tisa?

Tisa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tisa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tisa was born before 1972 — so the typical Tisa is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
43.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,421
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (631).

Is Tisa 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1970 (144)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#912
1970

Spellings of Tisa

Tisa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 23.3% against Tisa's 0.03%.

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 Tisa is used

Across 1910–2025, Tisa was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 317,841 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Maryland1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8Louisiana1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Tisa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tisa around the world

Where Tisa 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
    2007–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Tisa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#912
1970
Peak year
1970
144 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,447
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tisa

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

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Sibling names for Tisa

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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