Tahisha — girls' name
373 babies named Tahisha in U.S. Social Security records since 1970, with the highest year being 1977. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
55% of everyone ever named Tahisha was born in this single decade.
39 babies were named Tahisha in 1977 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tahisha
The Social Security Administration has registered 373 babies named Tahisha between 1970 and 1998, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tahisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 39 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tahisha performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 205 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Tahisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 62 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Tahisha in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tahisha 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 373 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.
Tahisha at a glance
Last recorded 1998Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tahisha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1998–1970
- Peak year (1977)
- 39
- Annual births at peak — across 29 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1998.
373 total births across 29 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1977 with 39 births in a single year.
Tahisha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 205 births that decade — 55% of Tahisha's all-time total
Tahisha decade highlights
- Peak decade 205 births
- Runner-up 118 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Tahisha's strongest decade
205 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 55% of all-time use.
Tahisha by state
Where Tahisha concentrates geographically — total births since 1970
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 62 | 16.6% |
| #2 | New Jersey | | 21 | 5.6% |
| #3 | Florida | | 5 | 1.3% |
| #4 | Massachusetts | | 5 | 1.3% |
62 of 373 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 16.6% of nationwide
- New Jersey 5.6% of nationwide
- Florida 1.3% of nationwide
- Massachusetts 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 16.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 1970–1998 (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.