Tamisha
Tamisha was last recorded in 2007, when 7 babies were given it; 2,188 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,100 Americans named Tamisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 37 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tamisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,307, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
122 babies in 1974, the peak
Tamisha peaked in 1974, when 122 girls were given it, #998 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | #15,307 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,483 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,229 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,201 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,231 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,414 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,676 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,448 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 22 | #5,016 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,683 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 32 | #3,616 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,492 | 18.8 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,920 | 23.3 |
| 1994 | 50 | #2,531 | 28.0 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,871 | 23.2 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,267 | 32.0 |
| 1991 | 65 | #2,085 | 34.7 |
| 1990 | 58 | #2,224 | 30.5 |
| 1989 | 80 | #1,711 | 43.4 |
| 1988 | 73 | #1,753 | 41.0 |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,675 | 42.0 |
| 1986 | 80 | #1,536 | 46.6 |
| 1985 | 74 | #1,619 | 43.0 |
| 1984 | 83 | #1,410 | 49.3 |
| 1983 | 104 | #1,228 | 62.3 |
| 1982 | 115 | #1,191 | 67.9 |
| 1981 | 85 | #1,444 | 51.0 |
| 1980 | 115 | #1,174 | 69.3 |
| 1979 | 89 | #1,392 | 55.4 |
| 1978 | 115 | #1,132 | 75.1 |
| 1977 | 112 | #1,138 | 73.1 |
| 1976 | 105 | #1,133 | 71.7 |
| 1975 | 88 | #1,275 | 60.4 |
| 1974 | 122 | #998 | 83.1 |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,566 | 41.1 |
| 1972 | 52 | #1,719 | 34.2 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,419 | 19.2 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,735 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,015 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,916 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tamisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tamisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamisha, and how old are they?
2,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,188 Americans ever recorded as Tamisha. The median Tamisha alive today is 44 years old; half are between 37 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,831 people named Tamisha (1,828 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,125 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 867 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,080 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 153 |
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 Tamisha born?
The states with the most babies named Tamisha are New York, California and Texas, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 256 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 193 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 174 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 83 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 78 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 56 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 45 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Tamisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tamisha is most over-represented in New York: since 1968 it was given 1.6 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 Tamisha 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,111 babies since 1880, Tamisha is the most given (43% 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 Tamisha
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 Tamisha and names like it
- Compare Tamisha and TameshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTamisha peaked in 1974.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tamisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Tamisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tamisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.