Tya
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Tya by the numbers
Tya was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 41 babies in 1999, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Tya
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Tya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Tya
Names that are said the same way as Tya, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Tiah4 in England and Wales (2025)