Sanisha — girls' name
23 babies named Sanisha in U.S. Social Security records since 1986, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
52% of everyone ever named Sanisha was born in this single decade.
7 babies were named Sanisha in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sanisha
The Social Security Administration has registered 23 babies named Sanisha between 1986 and 2021, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sanisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 7 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sanisha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 12 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Sanisha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sanisha 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 23 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.
Sanisha at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sanisha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1986
- Peak year (1990)
- 7
- Annual births at peak — across 36 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
23 total births across 36 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 7 births in a single year.
Sanisha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 12 births that decade — 52% of Sanisha's all-time total
Sanisha decade highlights
- Peak decade 12 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Sanisha's strongest decade
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 52% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1986–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.