Taneisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Taneisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,038 babies named Taneisha between 1971 and 2012, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Taneisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 113 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Taneisha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 932 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Taneisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 106 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Taneisha in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Taneisha 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 2,038 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.