Given name & surname
Tigh
“from the fenced-in pasture”
Tigh is a variant of Tye. One English interpretation is “from the fenced-in pasture.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tigh is a variant of Tye. One English interpretation is “from the fenced-in pasture.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Tigh is a variant of Tye. An origin associated with Tye is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tigh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 34
- 34 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1982.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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>99% boys
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