Tarshia
Tarshia was last recorded in 1981, when 6 babies were given it; 123 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tarshia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tarshia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,277, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1971, the peak
Tarshia peaked in 1971, when 17 girls were given it, #3,778 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | #10,277 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,981 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,833 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,995 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,821 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,693 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,335 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,433 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,778 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,466 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 6 | #7,381 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,181 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tarshia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tarshia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tarshia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tarshia, and how old are they?
An estimated 115 Americans named Tarshia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 51 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 112 people named Tarshia (112 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 117 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,787 babies since 1880, Tarshia is the third most given (4.4% 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 Tarshia
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 Tarshia and names like it
- Compare Tarshia and TarshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTarshia peaked in 1971.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tarshia since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Tarshia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tarshia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.