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Tisha

#6,303 in 2025Girls' name

Happiness, blessedness, through Letitia

Tisha has been given to 9,552 babies in the U.S. since 1886. In 2025 it ranked #6,303 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 868 recorded.

Babies named Tisha, 2025

1 in 174,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tisha: meaning, origin, and history

Happiness, blessedness, through Letitia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tisha means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Tisha is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Letitia and laetitia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,552 girls were recorded with the name Tisha between 1886 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 868 in 1971; its best national rank was #311 in 1971.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,896 in 2020 to #6,303 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,433 in 2015 to #6,303 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 Tisha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 84,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,303
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tisha 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 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tisha was born before 1975 — so the typical Tisha is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
53.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
9,482
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 53.1% of all recorded uses (5,076).

Is Tisha 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
+2,594
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+593
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,130
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.58×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.2%
Peak was 1971 (868)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#311
1971

Spellings of Tisha

Tisha is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 49.0% against Tisha's 0.48%.

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 Tisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Tisha was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 21,509 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 8,333
  2. 2Kansas1 in 10,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 10,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 12,500
  5. 5Indiana1 in 14,286
  6. 6Missouri1 in 14,286
  7. 7Ohio1 in 14,286
  8. 8California1 in 16,667

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. Tisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tisha around the world

Where Tisha 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
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2019
    #7,596
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1971–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Tisha

People whose public names include Tisha, 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.

Tisha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,303
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 593
Best rank ever
#311
1971
Peak year
1971
868 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,552
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Tisha

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

ToshaKeshaAlyshaAshaMishaDashaAleshaAishaAyshaAyeshaElishaNishaTashaIshaLishaSashaDaishaAnishaIeshaKeishaKishaPorshaPrishaTaisha

Names with a curve like Tisha

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

ShondaChandaMistiLashawnLatanyaShandaTawanaCareyKatinaAnitraKarrieTawanda

Sibling names for Tisha

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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