Tia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Recent coinage, apparently originating as a short form of the various given names ending in -tia, as for example bLaetitia and pLucretia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 9.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 11K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15K
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)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 456 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
30,869 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Recent coinage, apparently originating as a short form of the various given names ending in -tia, as for example bLaetitia and pLucretia.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tia 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 | — | 30,869 | 1 in 11K | 31K | Tia | 456 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 6 | Tia | 213 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | 529 | Tia | 19 |
| AU Australia | #894 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | 53 | Tia | 161 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 4 | Tia | 146 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,688 | 1 in 1.2K | 1.7K | — | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,402 | 1 in 4K | 1.5K | Tia | 33 |
| HR Croatia | — | 636 | 1 in 6.6K | 1.9K | — | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | #245 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Tia | 10 |
| GY Guyana | — | 173 | 1 in 4.3K | 173 | — | 10 |
30,869 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; 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)
Tia 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, Initialism of Telecommunications Industry Association.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Third born.
as a nameThe African book of names
Princesa
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Akan, V. [red. tiatia] 1. to add, to give or put to, to join or ufiite one thing or sum to another; fa brftkti' yi kotia mmrCikti' no, put this book to those other books; tia biribi ma ennu, fill up or make up the sum (of money); cf. pua so. — 2. followed by a numeral: to fill up to any given number: otia (won) anah he is the fourth; etia(no) anum, it is the fifth; cf. to so. Gr. § 83,3
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Akan, border, boundary, end of a town or way, s. kttrotfa, akwAn- tia; cf. tea, teasee, tiafi; - wgde onipa no ako tia aba t£a, they have taken the man to one end of the town and from there to atwthcr. 0-tia, dross, slag (scoriae) of iron, = dadebfn. ntia, inf. addition, pr.3266
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
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)
- Tia Lessinb. 1950USAmerican filmmaker
- Tia Blakeb. 1952USwriter and singer of Columbus, Georgia
- Tia Carrereb. 1967USAmerican actress (born 1967)
- Tia Texadab. 1971USAmerican actress
- Tia Fullerb. 1976USAmerican musician
- Tia Mowryb. 1978USAmerican actress (born 1978)
- Tia Hellebautb. 1978BEBelgian high jumper
- Tia Tanakab. 1987IDAmerican pornographic actress
- Bonnie Blueb. 1999GBnot in their usual nameBritish pornographic actress
- Tia Jonesb. 2000USAmerican female hurdler
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 90 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 31K | #1,234 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.9K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.7K | #281 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 1.7K | #148 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.5K | #653 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1.4K | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 636 | #669 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 173 | #422 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 151 | #1,234 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 98 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 57 | — |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2009 | 53 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Tia mean, and where does it come from?
- Recent coinage, apparently originating as a short form of the various given names ending in -tia, as for example bLaetitia and pLucretia. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Tia a male or female name?
- Tia 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.
- In which country does Tia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Tia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tia.
- Where is Tia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tia is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 30,869 people named Tia in 2020, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Tia compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Tia is the 245th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Tia?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtiə/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tiaThe 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, “Tia” — the 245th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.