Tiit
given name · Estonian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tiit is a given name, most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is the 78th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Estonian and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Short for Tiidrik, an old Estonian equivalent of Old High German Theodoric, cognate with German Dietrich and English Derek. * Less often shortened from Tiitus.
- EEEstonia1 in 594◐
- LVLatvia1 in 627K
- SESweden1 in 249K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈57 ●
- Sources
- 62 ●
- 1 in 249K ◐
across 4 countries
2.4K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
Short for Tiidrik, an old Estonian equivalent of Old High German Theodoric, cognate with German Dietrich and English Derek. * Less often shortened from Tiitus.
Sources 1
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | #78 | 7,148 | 1.1K rec. | — | 2.7K | Tiit | 62 |
| US United States | — | 107 | 115 rec. | — | — | Tiit | 31 |
| SE Sweden | — | 41△ | 14 rec. | 1 in 249K | 41 | Tiit | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 33 | 30 rec. | — | — | Tiit | 10 |
| DE Germany | — | 30 | 42 rec. | — | — | Tiit | 12 |
| AU Australia | — | 23 | 22 rec. | — | 1 | Tiit | 9 |
| ES Spain | — | 12 | 9 rec. | — | — | Tiit | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | 11 | 21 rec. | 1 in 507K | 543 | Tiit | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | 9 | 9 rec. | — | — | Tiit | 4 |
| LV Latvia | #537 | 3 | 1K rec. | 1 in 627K | 3 | Tiit | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 rec. | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | — | 4 rec. | — | 24 | — | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Estonian7.7K81%
- Finnish5926%
- English2623%
- Latvian2593%
- Russian1201%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Estonian | 7,683 | 81% |
| Finnish | 592 | 6% |
| English | 262 | 3% |
| Latvian | 259 | 3% |
| Russian | 120 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Tiit is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, nominative plural of tii
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In li, Eupen form of Tied
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In jam, tooth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 31 |
| 2000 | 31 |
| 2001 | 30 |
| 2002 | 30 |
| 2003 | 30 |
| 2004 | 28 |
| 2005 | 30 |
| 2006 | 30 |
| 2007 | 31 |
| 2008 | 30 |
| 2009 | 31 |
| 2010 | 32 |
| 2011 | 33 |
| 2012 | 33 |
| 2013 | 32 |
| 2014 | 33 |
| 2015 | 31 |
| 2016 | 32 |
| 2017 | 31 |
| 2018 | 29 |
| 2019 | 28 |
| 2020 | 27 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Tiit Käbinb. 1937EEEstonian legal scholar and politician (1937-2011)
- Tiit Madeb. 1940EEEstonian economist and politician (born 1940)
- Tiit Vähib. 1947EEEstonian politician and entrepreneur (born 1947)
- Tiit Kõrvitsb. 1951EEEstonian musician and architect (born 1951)
- Tiit Matsulevitšb. 1958EEEstonian politician and diplomat (born 1958)
- Tiit Sokkb. 1964EEEstonian basketball player and coach (born 1964)
- Tiit Landb. 1964EEEstonian biochemist (born 1964)
- Tiit Aleksejevb. 1968EEEstonian writer and historian (born 1968)
- Tiit Sukkb. 1974EEEstonian actor, director, and television presenter (born 1974)
- Tiit Terikb. 1979EEEstonian politician (born 1979)
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●
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 2.7K | #51 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 2.7K | #51 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 543 | #2,010 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 100 | #751 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 91 | #901 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 44 | #30,720 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 41 | #15,523 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 33 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 33 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 33 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 32 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 32 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 39 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tiit?
- We estimate roughly 57 people bear Tiit (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tiit have the most bearers?
- Tiit is most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is most often spelled tiit.
- How common is Tiit compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Tiit is the 78th most common given name of 14,570 given names recorded there.
- Is Tiit a male or female name?
- Tiit is a male 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 Tiit mean?
- Recorded meaning: Short for Tiidrik, an old Estonian equivalent of Old High German Theodoric, cognate with German Dietrich and English Derek. * Less often shortened from Tiitus.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tiit” — the 78th most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.