Tarsha
Tarsha was last recorded in 1996, when 5 babies were given it; 2,375 Americans have been recorded with it between 1961 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,230 Americans named Tarsha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 48 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tarsha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tarsha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,645, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
246 babies in 1974, the peak
Tarsha peaked in 1974, when 246 girls were given it, #630 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | #15,645 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,521 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,272 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,613 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,433 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,651 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,638 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,052 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,519 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,504 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 30 | #2,984 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,267 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,218 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,807 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 95 | #1,335 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 122 | #1,117 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 122 | #1,084 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 123 | #1,065 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 166 | #836 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 177 | #792 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 246 | #630 | 0.17 |
| 1973 | 204 | #714 | 0.14 |
| 1972 | 225 | #665 | 0.15 |
| 1971 | 212 | #717 | 0.13 |
| 1970 | 119 | #1,041 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 81 | #1,249 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 72 | #1,309 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,113 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,143 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,247 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,968 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,512 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,426 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tarsha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tarsha 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 Tarsha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tarsha, and how old are they?
2,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 2,375 Americans ever recorded as Tarsha. The median Tarsha alive today is 52 years old; half are between 48 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 1,855 people named Tarsha (1,850 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,270 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,900 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 309 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Tarsha born?
The states with the most babies named Tarsha are New York, Texas and North Carolina, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 200 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 177 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 171 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Florida | 140 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| South Carolina | 129 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Mississippi | 128 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| Tennessee | 120 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Virginia | 104 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 100 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Maryland | 91 | not ranked | 2.4× |
Where Tarsha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tarsha is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1961 it was given 4.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tarsha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,787 babies since 1880, Tarsha is the most given (85% 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 Tarsha
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 Tarsha and names like it
- Compare Tarsha and TarishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTarsha peaked in 1974.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tarsha since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Tarsha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tarsha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.