Tonisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tonisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,224 babies named Tonisha between 1970 and 2009, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tonisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 138 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tonisha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 844 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Tonisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 211 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Tonisha in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tonisha 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 2,224 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.