girls:
9.5k births since 1886
#1657 (71st percentile)
overall:
9.5k births since 1886
#2756 (64th percentile)
The name Tisha is the #2,756 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,520 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 64.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,657 (71.0% percentile) for all time with 9,520 births since 1886.
Tisha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (first recorded for girls in 1886). Birth data for Tisha is available in 84 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Tisha reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 62.0% percentile (ranked #293) with 495 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 495 births per million (ranked 62.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tisha ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 0.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tisha".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tisha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.0% confident that Tisha is pronounced as TIH-shuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TEE-shuh, at 19.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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