Tia

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled เตี๊ยะ in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Tia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Indonesian given name28K records spelled Tia18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, India

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Tiya, 'Tia, Tia', 'Tiya, Tïyā

• a separate given name11K records spelled Tia4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

  Also written Ti-A, Ţia, Tía

• Croatian given name8.6K records spelled Tia20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Poland, India

  Languages: Croatian, Polish, Slovenian

  Also written Tija, Тиа, Тия, Tía, Тија

• Finnish given name7.9K records spelled Tia6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Tià, Tía, Tiä, Tiá

66 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Tia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Initialism of Telecommunications Industry Association.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Third born.

  as a name·The African book of names

• Princesa

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Akan, V. [red. tiatia] 1. to add, to give or put to, to join or ufiite one thing or sum to another; fa brftkti' yi kotia mmrCikti' no, put this book to those other books; tia biribi ma ennu, fill up or make up the sum (of money); cf. pua so. — 2. followed by a numeral: to fill up to any given number: otia (won) anah he is the fourth; etia(no) anum, it is the fifth; cf. to so. Gr. § 83,3

  as a word·Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

• In Akan, border, boundary, end of a town or way, s. kttrotfa, akwAn- tia; cf. tea, teasee, tiafi; - wgde onipa no ako tia aba t£a, they have taken the man to one end of the town and from there to atwthcr. 0-tia, dross, slag (scoriae) of iron, = dadebfn. ntia, inf. addition, pr.3266

  as a word·Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 81 years between 1944–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Tia Lessinb. 1950USAmerican filmmaker
• Tia Blakeb. 1952USwriter and singer of Columbus, Georgia
• Tia Carrereb. 1967USAmerican actress (born 1967)
• Tia Texadab. 1971USAmerican actress
• Tia Fullerb. 1976USAmerican musician
• Tia Mowryb. 1978USAmerican actress (born 1978)
• Tia Hellebautb. 1978BEBelgian high jumper
• Tia Tanakab. 1987IDAmerican pornographic actress
• Bonnie Blueb. 1999GBnot in their usual nameBritish pornographic actress
• Tia Jonesb. 2000USAmerican female hurdler

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 728 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tia?

We estimate roughly 38 thousand people bear Tia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Tia have the most bearers?

We estimate about 31 thousand people bear Tia in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tia.

Where is Tia most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tia is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Tia compared with other names?

In Jamaica, Tia is the 198th most common given name of 20,217 given names recorded there.

Is Tia a male or female name?

Tia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Tia mean?

Recorded meaning: Recent coinage, apparently originating as a short form of the various given names ending in -tia, as for example bLaetitia and pLucretia.