Tya
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 41 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 791since 1967
Tya over time
Rank among girls' names. Tya has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 |
| 2005 | #4,487 | 30 |
| 2004 | #4,949 | 26 |
| 2003 | #5,235 | 23 |
| 2002 | #3,730 | 35 |
| 2001 | #3,785 | 34 |
| 2000 | #3,591 | 36 |
| 1999 | #3,148 | 41 |
| 1998 | #3,497 | 34 |
| 1997 | #3,716 | 30 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 |
| 1989 | #5,286 | 16 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 |
| 1981 | #3,739 | 21 |
| 1980 | #4,327 | 17 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 |
| 1978 | #3,924 | 18 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 |
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| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tya! It came in at #6,042, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1971, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Tya is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#1,005 · 1 in 13,791
Best ever in a state: #1,005 in Ohio, 1978.
Show every state
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| Ohio | #1,005 | 5 | 1 in 13,791 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Tya
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 1999 at #3,148 (41 births)
- Births halved by 2006, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 43,264 girls born in 1999 were named Tya (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 270,032 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 31.0% of all girls named Tya (245) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13 | #5,642 (1968) | #5,842 |
| 1970s | 93 | #3,924 (1978) | #5,325 |
| 1980s | 137 | #3,739 (1981) | #5,614 |
| 1990s | 211 | #3,148 (1999) | #5,287 |
| 2000s | 245 | #3,591 (2000) | #5,906 |
| 2010s | 72 | #9,150 (2011) | #11,553 |
| 2020s | 20 | #12,142 (2020) | #12,605 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tya in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
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1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 85,103 of them was named Tya, which outranked 65.8% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,777Yessica19
- #3,777Yocheved19
- #3,777Zelda19
- #3,924Tya18
- #3,924Abigale18
- #3,924Alicea18
- #3,924Allyn18
- #4,079Agatha17
- #4,079Albert17
- #4,079Alix17
Tied with 154 names at #3,924; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.