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Tiaa vs Tianna

American parents have registered 13,411 Tiannas since 1880, against 29 Tiaas. Tianna is still ahead, with 111 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tiaa against Tianna, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tiaa Tianna

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 63 years in which either name was published, Tianna for 62 years and Tiaa for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Tiaa Tianna
Total US births 2913,411
Most in one year 24592
Babies in 2025 under 5111
Estimated living today 3013,000
Median age today 5125
Peak year 19741995
Best rank 2,922nd girls435th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,808th
First recorded 19741962
Girls / boys 29 / 013,411 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Tiaas alive today are over 51; half the Tiannas are over 25. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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