Tisha
Feminine · “noble”
Tisha is the back half of Latisha or Patricia taken as a name of its own — a piece of a longer name that stopped needing the rest.
How old is the name Tisha?
Tisha first appears in US birth records in 1886 — 139 years ago. The typical Tisha alive today was born around 1975, making them about 50 years old. About 9,100 people named Tisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tisha most popular?
Tisha peaked in 1971, reaching #311 nationally. Today it ranks #6116, 5,805 places below that high. See the whole 1971 chart.
Where it comes from
From laetitia to Tisha
The story of Tisha
Both Patricia and Leticia produced -tisha clippings in American speech, and from the 1960s American families registered the clipping directly. Tisha rose through the 1970s alongside Latisha, Latasha and Keisha, and peaked in the mid-1970s — part of a broad and well-documented period of American name-building on existing sounds.
Meaningscholars disagree
noble; joy
Two routes. Through Patricia, from the Latin patricius, 'nobleman' — a genuine Roman rank. Through Latisha and Leticia, from the Latin laetitia, 'joy' or 'gladness'. Both are real Latin words; which one a given bearer descends from is usually unrecoverable.
How the name formed
- laetitia
- Latisha
- Tisha
Related forms: Tesha · Latisha · Leticia
Pronouncing Tisha
TEE-shuh
Two syllables, stress on the first. Some bearers say TISH-uh with a short first vowel.
Nicknames for Tisha
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1886
- Most girls named
- 1971868 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #311reached in 1971
- Change vs 2023
- +171.4%19 in 2025, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tisha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tesha in English — spelling variant
- Latisha in English — related form
- Leticia in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New Jersey.
Tishas among us
people named Tisha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 84,593 born in 2025 was named Tisha
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kathi test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tisha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kathi climbed just as high around 1954, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kathi's path sketches the road Tisha is walking now.
Tisha sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Tisha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tisha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both possible parents have transparent and attractive Latin meanings.
- Two clean syllables that never need spelling out loud.
- Tish is a warm and immediate short form.
- The parent name is genuinely ambiguous.
- The first vowel splits between two readings.
- It is closely dated to the 1970s in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tishas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 9,100 people named Tisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tisha in 2025?
- Tisha ranks #6116 among US girl names in 2025, with 19 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tisha?
- About 1 in every 84,593 US girls born in 2025 was named Tisha — 19 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tisha with classmates?
- Tisha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Tisha
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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