Quanisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Quanisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,535 babies named Quanisha between 1976 and 2009, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Quanisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 160 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Quanisha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 984 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Quanisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 161 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Quanisha in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Quanisha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,535 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.