Tia

Where Tia comes from

Invented in the latter half of the twentieth century. It can be explained as a short form of Letitia or Venetia, or from Estonian Tiia, pet form of Dorothea.
— Wiktionary's entry for Tia
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1944
    First appearance
    #4,574 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1967
    Tia Carrere born
    American actress
  3. 1978
    Tia Hellebaut born
    Belgian high jumper
  4. 1982
    Peak, #221
    1,182 babies named Tia — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #505.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Tia Carrere · American actress, born 1967
  • Tia Hellebaut · Belgian high jumper, born 1978
  • Tia Mowry · American actress, born 1978
  • Tia Texada · American actress, born 1971
  • Tia Tanaka · American pornographic actress, born 1987

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.