Takisha
Takisha was last recorded in 2004, when 5 babies were given it; 2,058 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,970 Americans named Takisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 42 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Takisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Takisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,505, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
200 babies in 1977, the peak
Takisha peaked in 1977, when 200 girls were given it, #760 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #18,505 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,109 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,319 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,016 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,936 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,495 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,824 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,361 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,972 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,400 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 26 | #4,041 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,281 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,646 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,290 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,770 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,507 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 67 | #1,725 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 94 | #1,314 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 83 | #1,421 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 116 | #1,186 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 132 | #1,073 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 137 | #1,046 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 171 | #888 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 189 | #796 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 200 | #760 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 166 | #835 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 135 | #942 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 105 | #1,113 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 56 | #1,644 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,088 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,776 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,171 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Takisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Takisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Takisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Takisha, and how old are they?
1,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,058 Americans ever recorded as Takisha. The median Takisha alive today is 47 years old; half are between 42 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,590 people named Takisha (1,588 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,991 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,160 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 782 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 31 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Takisha born?
The states with the most babies named Takisha are New York, Illinois and North Carolina, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 214 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 99 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 98 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Florida | 96 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 83 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 81 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 63 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 54 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 53 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 50 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Takisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Takisha is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Takisha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,003 babies since 1880, Takisha is the most given (41% 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 Takisha
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 Takisha and names like it
- Compare Takisha and TakeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTakisha peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Takisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Takisha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Takisha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.