Entry № 10632 · Other origin

Tisa Tisa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TEE-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Nine"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "nine".

Tisa is a girls' name meaning nine.

Nine.

The name in its native script.

Tisa
Transliteration
Tisa
Pronunciation
/ ˈtiː.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tisa stands.

Tisa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Tisas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Swahili Coast / Bantu naming
Swahili nine + given to ninth child + ~150-200 million Swahili speakers + Tanzania + Kenya + Uganda + DRC + Mozambique + Swahili Coast civilization ~1000 years + Bantu naming
Swahili heritage

Names connected to Tisa.

The number behind Tisa.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tisa reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.