girls:
33.6k births since 1944
#757 (87th percentile)
boys:
64 births since 1980
#4522 (1st percentile)
overall:
33.7k births since 1944
#1372 (82nd percentile)
The name Tia is the #1,372 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 33,672 recorded births since 1944. This represents the 82.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #757 (86.8% percentile) for all time with 33,608 births since 1944. For boys, it ranks #4,522 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 64 births since 1980.
Tia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1944 (1944 for girls and 1980 for boys). Birth data for Tia is available in 79 out of the 80 years between 1944 and 2023 (79 years for girls and 9 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tia reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 72.7% percentile (ranked #217) with 651 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 651 births per million (ranked 72.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1998, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tia ranks #816 for girls (13.8% percentile) with 78 births per million, which is 11.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Tia reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #750) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tia".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Tia is pronounced as TEE-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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