Given name & surname · also Latin
Tilia
“wealth, riches”
Tilia is a feminine given name from Latin, ultimately from Old High German. It is used in Norwegian Bokmål.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tilia goes back to a word meaning “wealth, riches.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Tilia comes from Latin, and ultimately from Old High German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Tilia is a short form of OTILIA.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tilia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 132
- 0 boys · 132 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #10,050 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −17%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,050 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 236 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tilia’s family of names
In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Tilia is a short form of OTILIA. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Tilia shares a linguistic root with the English form Tilly. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Tilia has a related form in TILJA.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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