Takiesha
Takiesha was last recorded in 1996, when 5 babies were given it; 182 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Takiesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Takiesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,611, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1978, the peak
Takiesha peaked in 1978, when 22 girls were given it, #3,493 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | #15,611 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,495 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,671 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,953 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,423 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,190 | 3.3 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,540 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,040 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,845 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,168 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 16 | #4,713 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,868 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,208 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,493 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,593 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,864 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,580 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Takiesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Takiesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Takiesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Takiesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 175 Americans named Takiesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 40 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 155 people named Takiesha (155 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 177 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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, Takiesha is the fifth most given (3.6% 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 Takiesha
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 Takiesha and names like it
- Compare Takiesha and TakishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTakiesha peaked in 1978.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Takiesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Takiesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.