Tisa

Where Tisa comes from

Tisa hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1941
    Tisa Chang born
    actress
  2. 1948
    First appearance
    #2,589 among girls, 15 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1951
    Tisa Farrow born
    American actress
  4. 1970
    Peak, #910
    144 babies named Tisa — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,418.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tisa Farrow · American actress, 1951–2024
  • Tisa Chang · actress, born 1941

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.