Tasha
Tasha was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,852 among girls’ names; 35,634 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 34,100 Americans named Tasha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 38 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tasha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tasha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tasha is “a diminutive of the female given name Natasha”
Clipping of Natasha
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tasha?
#7,852 among girls’ names, 2025
Tasha rose from #7,964 in 2015 to #7,852 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 8.7 per million.
2,277 babies in 1980, the peak
Tasha peaked in 1980, when 2,277 babies were given it (2,266 girls, #130 among girls’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,852 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,381 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,723 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,988 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,596 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,900 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,987 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,379 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,034 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,964 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,964 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,680 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 28 | #5,003 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,236 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,775 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,722 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,295 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,313 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,819 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,509 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 82 | #2,236 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 94 | #1,985 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 89 | #2,029 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 149 | #1,314 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 120 | #1,558 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 162 | #1,227 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 191 | #1,058 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 194 | #1,026 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 273 | #771 | 0.16 |
| 1996 | 336 | #663 | 0.19 |
| 1995 | 463 | #522 | 0.26 |
| 1994 | 539 | #469 | 0.30 |
| 1993 | 687 | #371 | 0.38 |
| 1992 | 807 | #332 | 0.44 |
| 1991 | 959 | #293 | 0.51 |
| 1990 | 1,154 | #246 | 0.61 |
| 1989 | 1,205 | #228 | 0.65 |
| 1988 | 1,306 | #200 | 0.73 |
| 1987 | 1,278 | #208 | 0.74 |
| 1986 | 1,302 | #200 | 0.76 |
| 1985 | 1,481 | #181 | 0.86 |
| 1984 | 1,682 | #164 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 1,834 | #156 | 1.1 |
| 1982 | 1,883 | #158 | 1.1 |
| 1981 | 2,018 | #141 | 1.2 |
| 1980 | 2,266 | #130 | 1.4 |
| 1979 | 1,401 | #190 | 0.87 |
| 1978 | 1,053 | #235 | 0.69 |
| 1977 | 1,115 | #224 | 0.73 |
| 1976 | 1,106 | #218 | 0.75 |
| 1975 | 1,084 | #223 | 0.74 |
| 1974 | 1,344 | #190 | 0.92 |
| 1973 | 1,122 | #226 | 0.77 |
| 1972 | 1,136 | #240 | 0.75 |
| 1971 | 1,018 | #282 | 0.61 |
| 1970 | 592 | #399 | 0.34 |
| 1969 | 370 | #507 | 0.22 |
| 1968 | 261 | #596 | 0.16 |
| 1967 | 205 | #676 | 0.12 |
| 1966 | 214 | #661 | 0.13 |
| 1965 | 58 | #1,460 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 47 | #1,704 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 47 | #1,679 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,883 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,949 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,361 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,584 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,066 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,480 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,792 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,079 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,688 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,199 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,696 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,604 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,312 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tasha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tasha has been given almost only to girls: 106 boys in 76 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tasha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tasha, and how old are they?
34,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 35,634 Americans ever recorded as Tasha. The median Tasha alive today is 44 years old; half are between 38 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 33,339 people named Tasha (33,257 women and girls, 82 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 34,431 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 267 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13,500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 18,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 233 |
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 Tasha born?
The states with the most babies named Tasha are California, New York and Texas, with 20% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,563 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 2,126 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 2,003 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 1,999 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 1,796 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 1,348 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 1,321 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,308 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 1,183 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Indiana | 1,076 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Tasha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tasha is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1947 it was given 1.8 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 Tasha 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 44,430 babies since 1880, Tasha is the most given (80% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 40 babies (35%), again the most given.
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 Tasha
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 Tasha and names like it
- Compare Tasha and TaishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTasha peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tasha since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Tasha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tasha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.