Tiia
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: a female given name, popular in the end of the 20th century
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tiia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 622(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 1.4K
- USUnited States1 in 2.9M
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 622 (inferred from the name graph)
8,960 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, popular in the end of the 20th century
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tiia is read(measured from records)
Tiia is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Finnish39%
a female given name, popular in the end of the 20th century
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tiia in English.
- Estonian16%
a diminutive of the female given name Dorotea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tiia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #146 | 8,960 | 1 in 622 | 9.3K | Tiia | 89 |
| EE Estonia | #122 | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 2.1K | Tiia | 43 |
| US United States | — | 115 | 1 in 2.9M | 115 | Tiia | 97 |
| SE Sweden | — | 94 | 1 in 109K | 94 | Tiia | 14 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 475K | — | Tiia | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 319K | — | Tiia | 10 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 225K | 70 | Tiia | 5 |
8,960 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tiia-Ester Loitmeb. 1933EEEstonian conductor (born 1933)
- Tiia Kriisab. 1941EEEstonian actress and writer (born 1941)
- Tiia Toometb. 1947EEEstonian writer (born 1947)
- Tiia Tulvisteb. 1955EEEstonian psychologist and professor (born 1955)
- Tiia Hautalab. 1972FIFinnish athletics competitor and coach
- Tiia Reimab. 1973FIFinnish ice hockey player and coach
- Tiia Aarnipuub. 1974FIFinnish counselor and writer
- Tiia Piilib. 1979FIFinnish aerobic gymnast
- Tiia-Maria Talvitieb. 1994FIFinnish biathlete
- Tiia Peltonenb. 1995FIFinnish football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 9.3K | #225 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 9K | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 2.1K | #72 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 2.1K | #62 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 115 | #51,177 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 94 | #8,931 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 70 | #9,787 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 60 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 59 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 59 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 58 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 58 | — |
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
- What does the name Tiia mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, popular in the end of the 20th century Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Tiia a male or female name?
- Tiia 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.
- What are other forms of the name Tiia?
- In the etymology graph, Dorothy, Dora and Doreen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tiia have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 9.0 thousand people named Tiia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tiia.
- Where is Tiia most common?
- Tiia is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 622 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tiia?
- In Finland, the national register counted 8,960 people named Tiia, about 1 in 622 residents.
- How common is Tiia compared with other names?
- In Finland, Tiia is the 146th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tiia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tiiaThe 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, “Tiia” — the 146th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.