Tigist (ትዕግሥት) is the Amharic word for "patience." Used as a feminine name throughout Ethiopia.
Tigist is widely used in modern Ethiopia.
Tigist 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tigist reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.