Tish

Girls' name

Happiness, blessedness, through Letitia

Tish has been given to 797 babies in the U.S. since 1938. 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 1971, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Tish, 1988

1 in 739,000

Tish over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tish: meaning, origin, and history

Happiness, blessedness, through Letitia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tish means

Tish belongs to the name family reached through Tish → Letitia → laetitia. Its meaning is “happiness, blessedness”.

Origin, language, and formation

Tish is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Letitia and laetitia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 797 girls were recorded with the name Tish between 1938 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 63 in 1971; its best national rank was #1,556 in 1971.

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.

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How common is Tish?

Tish had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988: 1 in 739,000; 5 of 3,694,212 births
Among girls only: 1 in 356,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1988: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 512,128 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Tish 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 1988 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 512,128 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tish. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tishs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tish was born before 1967 — so the typical Tish is around 58 today.

Median birth year: 1967; About 58 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 61.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 754; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (283).

Is Tish 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1971 (63)
Years since peak: 54; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 35.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,556; 1971

Spellings of Tish

Tish is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 63.9% against Tish's 0.05%.

Lisa63.9%967,229
Tina19.3%292,146
Trisha2.7%40,302
Tasha2.3%35,528
Tia2.2%33,832
Aisha1.8%26,933
Tess0.98%14,770
Miah0.63%9,583

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 Tish is used

Across 1910–2025, Tish was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 501,961 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Florida1 in —
3Ohio1 in —
4Texas1 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. Tish has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tish 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: #1,556; 1971
Peak year: 1971; 63 that year
First recorded: 1938
Last recorded: 1988
All-time count: 797
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Tish

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

Tisa Irish Ailish Tisha Eilish Tishie Tishia Parrish Charish Tishya British Trish Abrish Tishana Parish Tishara Sehrish Tischa Tisya Tissaia Cherrish Mehwish English Latish

Sibling names for Tish

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

For a sister

Charisse Darcie Michell Kerrie Nicola Latonia Jenni Nicolle

For a brother

Shon Darrick Judd Douglass Alfonzo Scottie Erich Edwardo

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