Toniesha
Toniesha was last recorded in 2001, when 7 babies were given it; 147 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Toniesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Toniesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,402, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1994, the peak
Toniesha peaked in 1994, when 13 girls were given it, #7,063 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 7 | #13,402 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,721 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,599 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,055 | 5.1 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,539 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,481 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,063 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,464 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,411 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,201 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 9 | #9,191 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,618 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,761 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,210 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,473 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,331 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,964 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,072 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Toniesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Toniesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Toniesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Toniesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 144 Americans named Toniesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 30 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 138 people named Toniesha (137 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 145 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,084 babies since 1880, Toniesha is the fourth most given (4.8% 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 Toniesha
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 Toniesha and names like it
- Compare Toniesha and TonishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sToniesha peaked in 1994.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Toniesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Toniesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.