Tenisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tenisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,501 babies named Tenisha between 1968 and 2013, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tenisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 221 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tenisha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,666 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Tenisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 310 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Tenisha in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tenisha 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 3,501 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.