Tinisha
Tinisha was last recorded in 2003, when 8 babies were given it; 1,145 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Tinisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 37 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tinisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tinisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,325, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 1980, the peak
Tinisha peaked in 1980, when 67 girls were given it, #1,703 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 8 | #12,325 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,676 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,591 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,986 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,300 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,093 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,504 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,434 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,983 | 22.1 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,331 | 18.4 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 48 | #2,585 | 25.6 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,070 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 49 | #2,400 | 26.6 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,588 | 23.6 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,486 | 24.2 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,465 | 23.9 |
| 1985 | 53 | #2,045 | 30.8 |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,463 | 23.2 |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,749 | 37.1 |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,806 | 36.0 |
| 1981 | 59 | #1,866 | 35.4 |
| 1980 | 67 | #1,703 | 40.4 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,975 | 33.0 |
| 1978 | 57 | #1,802 | 37.2 |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,830 | 36.5 |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,097 | 28.7 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,057 | 29.5 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,609 | 19.8 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,560 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,532 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,791 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 11 | #5,036 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,601 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tinisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tinisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tinisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tinisha, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,145 Americans ever recorded as Tinisha. The median Tinisha alive today is 43 years old; half are between 37 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 998 people named Tinisha (998 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,113 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 399 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 656 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 46 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,716 babies since 1880, Tinisha is the third most given (20% of them).
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 Tinisha
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 Tinisha and names like it
- Compare Tinisha and TynishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTinisha peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tinisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Tinisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tinisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.