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Tiya vs Tiyana

American parents have registered 1,162 Tiyanas since 1880, against 762 Tiyas. But in 2025 it was Tiya that was commoner, 13 babies to 8.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tiya against Tiyana, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tiya Tiyana

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 59 years in which either name was published, Tiyana for 30 years and Tiya for 29 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Tiya Tiyana
Total US births 7621,162
Most in one year 2759
Babies in 2025 138
Estimated living today 7501,100
Median age today 2223
Peak year 20031999
Best rank 4,668th girls2,438th girls
Rank in 2025 7,885th10,917th
First recorded 19661976
Girls / boys 762 / 01,162 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tiya Tiyana
France 615175
England and Wales 340146

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tiya and Tiyana.