Takesha
Takesha was last recorded in 1999, when 6 babies were given it; 977 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Takesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Takesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,230, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
80 babies in 1979, the peak
Takesha peaked in 1979, when 80 girls were given it, #1,493 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 6 | #14,230 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 8 | #11,018 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,935 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,607 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,592 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,038 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,800 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,686 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,156 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,253 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 24 | #4,105 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,383 | 16.3 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,316 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,554 | 22.7 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,590 | 22.1 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,184 | 27.3 |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,304 | 25.1 |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,365 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,766 | 38.4 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,882 | 34.9 |
| 1979 | 80 | #1,493 | 49.8 |
| 1978 | 70 | #1,567 | 45.7 |
| 1977 | 68 | #1,594 | 44.4 |
| 1976 | 70 | #1,497 | 47.8 |
| 1975 | 59 | #1,652 | 40.5 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,061 | 27.9 |
| 1973 | 23 | #3,005 | 15.8 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,164 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,279 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Takesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Takesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Takesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Takesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 936 Americans named Takesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 40 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 717 people named Takesha (715 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 947 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,003 babies since 1880, Takesha is the third most given (20% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Takesha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Takesha and names like it
- Compare Takesha and TakishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTakesha peaked in 1979.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Takesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Takesha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Takesha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.