Teneshia — girls' name

What the Data Says About Teneshia

The Social Security Administration has registered 558 babies named Teneshia between 1971 and 1997, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Teneshia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1997. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 50 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Teneshia performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 276 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Teneshia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Teneshia in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Teneshia 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 558 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.