Tamisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tamisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,188 babies named Tamisha between 1968 and 2007, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tamisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1974, when 122 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tamisha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 882 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tamisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 256 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Tamisha in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tamisha 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 2,188 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.