Taniesha
Taniesha was last recorded in 2004, when 10 babies were given it; 775 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taniesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taniesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,605, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
51 babies in 1991, the peak
Taniesha peaked in 1991, when 51 girls were given it, #2,474 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 10 | #10,605 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,996 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,160 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,030 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,979 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,397 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,515 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,839 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,034 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,827 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 21 | #4,821 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,211 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,204 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,474 | 27.2 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,888 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,565 | 24.4 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,159 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,711 | 21.3 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,380 | 25.1 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,159 | 16.9 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,838 | 19.0 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,646 | 20.4 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,759 | 20.1 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,059 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,857 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,142 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,269 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,896 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,164 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,755 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,628 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,310 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,558 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taniesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taniesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taniesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taniesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 751 Americans named Taniesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 33 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 677 people named Taniesha (677 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 757 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 30,484 babies since 1880, Taniesha is the fifth most given (2.5% 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 Taniesha
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 Taniesha and names like it
- Compare Taniesha and TanishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTaniesha peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taniesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Taniesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Taniesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.