Tenishia — girls' name
137 babies named Tenishia in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 1984. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
58% of everyone ever named Tenishia was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Tenishia in 1984 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tenishia
The Social Security Administration has registered 137 babies named Tenishia between 1974 and 1994, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tenishia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1984, when 14 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tenishia performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 80 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Tenishia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tenishia 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 137 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.
Tenishia at a glance
Last recorded 1994Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tenishia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1994–1974
- Peak year (1984)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 21 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1994.
137 total births across 21 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1984 with 14 births in a single year.
Tenishia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 80 births that decade — 58% of Tenishia's all-time total
Tenishia decade highlights
- Peak decade 80 births
- Runner-up 29 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Tenishia's strongest decade
80 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 58% of all-time use.
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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, 1974–1994 (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.