How rare is the name Tisha?

8,558 people in the United States have the first name Tisha, about 1 in 35,292. It ranks #2,739 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TISHA

#2,739

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,558
About
1 in 35,292
This common or more
80.7%
Who bears it

Of the 8,558 people named Tisha, 52.3% reported their origin as White, 28.2% as Black and 6.9% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tisha peaked in 1971, when 868 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18862025
Peak year
1971
Births that year
868
In 2025*
19 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 9,552 babies have been given the name since 1886. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Tisha by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #764. The largest share of babies named Tisha, 66.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1880s#2,63811
1890s#3,9395
1910s#11,6155
1920s#13,8275
1930s#11,9535
1940s#7,59039
1950s#5,121127
1960s#1,7191,105
1970s#7645,076
1980s#1,4631,936
1990s#3,029827
2000s#9,851207
2010s#13,901133
2020s#14,54171
Before 19010.2%
Greatest Generation 1901–270.1%
Silent Generation 1928–450.2%
Baby boom 1946–643.8%
Generation X 1965–8066.1%
Millennials 1981–9624.2%
Generation Z 1997–123.7%
2013 and later1.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Tisha is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tisha has been most common in Hawaii (2.4×), Kansas (2.3×), and Oklahoma (2.2×), and least common in Connecticut (0.39×).

7,159 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Tisha

#2,737 Natalee · 8,560#2,738 Finnegan · 8,559#2,740 Denzel · 8,556#2,741 Johnna · 8,555

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tisha, most common first.

#7,116 Tiesha · 2,169#9,273 Tisa · 1,512#10,695 Tish · 1,231#28,260 Tiasha · 319#30,312 Tishia · 288

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