Tanisha — #5173 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Tanisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 19,322 babies named Tanisha between 1967 and 2024, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tanisha currently holds the #5173 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 758 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tanisha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 6,811 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Tanisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 2,158 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Tanisha in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tanisha 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 19,322 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.