Tanishia — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tanishia

The Social Security Administration has registered 563 babies named Tanishia between 1970 and 1999, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tanishia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 34 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tanishia performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 263 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Tanishia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Tanishia in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tanishia 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 563 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.