Tisha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: In origin a respelling of a reduced form of Laetitia or Patricia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʲɪʃə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tisha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 39K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 49K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 381 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
8,558 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
In origin a respelling of a reduced form of Laetitia or Patricia. It is now fairly commonly used as an independent given name.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tisha counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 8,558 | 1 in 39K | 8.5K | Tisha | 381 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Tisha | 57 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 49K | listed | Tisha | 93 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 1 | Tisha | 89 |
| EG Egypt | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Tisha | 6 |
| HU Hungary | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Tisha | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Tisha | 16 |
| GY Guyana | 37 | 1 in 20K | 37 | — | 3 |
8,558 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tisha is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the female given name Letitia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Strong-willed.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Russian, "quiet."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Swahili, to frighten or threaten (to disturb with fear)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, inflection of seha:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tisha Campbellb. 1968USAmerican actress
- Tisha Wallerb. 1970USOlympic high jumper
- Tisha Venturinib. 1973USAmerican soccer player
- Tisha Terrasini Bankerb. 1973USAmerican actress
- Tisha Silangb. 1975PHCanadian television personality
- Tisha Walkerb. 1975USAmerican figure skater
- Tisha Vollemanb. 1999NLDutch artistic gymnast
- Tisha Prabriputaloongb. 2000researcher
- Tisha MartinGBBritish actor and singer
- Tisha WileyUSresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 29 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Tisha come from?
- In origin a respelling of a reduced form of Laetitia or Patricia. It is now fairly commonly used as an independent given name. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Tisha mean?
- Recorded meaning: In origin a respelling of a reduced form of Laetitia or Patricia.
- Is Tisha a male or female name?
- Tisha is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Tisha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,558 people named Tisha in 2020, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How do you pronounce Tisha?
- A machine transcription gives /tʲɪʃə/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Tisha?
- In the etymology graph, Leticia, Laetitia and Letitia are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Lettice.
- In which country does Tisha have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.6 thousand people named Tisha, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tisha.
- Where is Tisha most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tisha is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Tisha?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tishaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tisha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.