Tinisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tinisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,145 babies named Tinisha between 1969 and 2003, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tinisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 67 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tinisha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 515 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tinisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 72 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Tinisha in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tinisha 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 1,145 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.