Tia

Actually, the name Tia dates back from the Egyptian era, she was daughter of the God Seti and sister of Ramases the second.

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There are various meanings of the name in various parts of the world, funniest of which is Aunt in Spanish.

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I have named my Daughter Tia.

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In general, a person with this name tends to be full of love but very strong with their words and are fearless in nature.

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Because of their nature they are bold but when they are around, they have this supernatural aura around them.

Tia means “to love” in Malagasy the language used in Madagascar.

My name is Tia and my middle is Lashon. My name originated from the Quechuan word "Tiauatl" dating back over the centuries.

My first name. Used to despise it because everyone defaulted towards telling me my name means "aunt" in Spanish. Like I don't know that living in texas. For some reason, this ruined it for me. Even when I fired back that it actually means "Godess", it constantly degraded my feelings towards my name. Now I go by my middle name, but family and really close friends still use Tia, rather than my much longer middle name.
It's nice to compartmentalize my life like that in a way. And It's almost like I keep my truly 'god-like' nature hidden until I deem someone ready to see it.

I know a girl named Christina but everyone calls her Tia.

Tia is a Greek name meaning 'Princess'. Derivatives: Tiana, Tianna

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It is also a Japanese name derived from the word Tenshi, meaning 'Angel'.

Tia could be short for Tiara or Tiana.

Tia is also ancient Egyptian and means "princess".

I named my daughter Tia after my friend who's name is Tia and she was born in 1947. She was given the name Tia as a nickname for Patricia, her grandmother who was of Celtic origin. I did some research on the name Tia and read that it is of Greek, Egyptian and Hebrew origin. Yes, it also a Spanish language meaning for Aunt, albeit is of Greek, Egyptian and Hebrew origin.

The Egyptian origin sites say King Ramses sister was named Tia and the name means princess.

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The Hebrew origin reads that Tia was a nickname for the name Tamara who was the daughter-in-law of Judah. Tia was also a nickname for Tamar who was the daughter of David.

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From the Greek origin Tia means Goddess or Godly. Tia was an abbreviation for names like Althea and Dorothea. The Mythological Thea was the Greek Goddess of Light, Mother of the Sun, Moon and Dawn. Therefore, the name Tia dates back to ancient times.

The oldest reference I have been able to find anywhere is the use of "Tia" by Alexander Key as one of the two main characters in his 1968 novel Escape to Witch Mountain, which was made into a passable movie by Disney in 1975. Now, I read in an interview with Key sometime in the early 1970’s that he simply made up the name out of whole cloth, without any Earthly genesis at all, because the whole point was that he wanted an alien name (the two children in the novel are not human, they are extra-terrestrials with psionic powers, marooned on Earth as infants and unaware of their heritage). This puts the name "Tia" (as far as I am aware) in a totally different category than, for example my birth name of Barbara. I was personally so impressed with the eldritch and otherworldly nature of the name "Tia" that I chose it for my professional name before I was out of my teens. My career may not have amounted to much, but for the first ten years I used it, I was the only one! I note from your web site that the name was virtually unheard of in the U.S. until the 1970’s... perhaps this is why... nobody used it until Key made it up!

Though I am sure that Alexander Key invented the name independently for _Escape to Witch Mountain_, Tia was already in regular use in 1957, so there were earlier derivations of the name than his character.