Tashira — girls' name
366 babies named Tashira in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 1991. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
46% of everyone ever named Tashira was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Tashira in 1991 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tashira
The Social Security Administration has registered 366 babies named Tashira between 1972 and 2010, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tashira currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tashira performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 167 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tashira shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tashira in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tashira 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 366 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.
Tashira at a glance
Last recorded 2010Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tashira popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2010–1972
- Peak year (1991)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 39 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2010.
366 total births across 39 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1991 with 25 births in a single year.
Tashira by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 167 births that decade — 46% of Tashira's all-time total
Tashira decade highlights
- Peak decade 167 births
- Runner-up 104 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Tashira's strongest decade
167 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 46% of all-time use.
Tashira by state
Where Tashira concentrates geographically — total births since 1972
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Pennsylvania | | 6 | 1.6% |
6 of 366 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Pennsylvania 1.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Pennsylvania accounts for 1.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1972–2010 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.