Tonisha
Tonisha was last recorded in 2009, when 8 babies were given it; 2,224 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,150 Americans named Tonisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 33 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tonisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tonisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,593, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
138 babies in 1993, the peak
Tonisha peaked in 1993, when 138 girls were given it, #1,250 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 8 | #13,593 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,247 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,762 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,962 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,033 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,823 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,296 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,369 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,110 | 23.2 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,294 | 20.7 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 71 | #1,989 | 40.5 |
| 1995 | 68 | #2,021 | 38.7 |
| 1994 | 111 | #1,439 | 62.2 |
| 1993 | 138 | #1,250 | 76.3 |
| 1992 | 134 | #1,280 | 72.7 |
| 1991 | 100 | #1,548 | 53.3 |
| 1990 | 107 | #1,463 | 56.4 |
| 1989 | 95 | #1,519 | 51.5 |
| 1988 | 99 | #1,418 | 55.6 |
| 1987 | 85 | #1,517 | 48.9 |
| 1986 | 63 | #1,814 | 36.7 |
| 1985 | 79 | #1,549 | 45.9 |
| 1984 | 80 | #1,458 | 47.5 |
| 1983 | 76 | #1,509 | 45.5 |
| 1982 | 72 | #1,619 | 42.5 |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,546 | 46.8 |
| 1980 | 76 | #1,550 | 45.8 |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,710 | 40.5 |
| 1978 | 81 | #1,433 | 52.9 |
| 1977 | 74 | #1,497 | 48.3 |
| 1976 | 55 | #1,745 | 37.5 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,876 | 33.6 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,877 | 32.0 |
| 1973 | 43 | #1,937 | 29.5 |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,052 | 25.6 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,364 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,742 | 6.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tonisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tonisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tonisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tonisha, and how old are they?
2,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,224 Americans ever recorded as Tonisha. The median Tonisha alive today is 38 years old; half are between 33 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,664 people named Tonisha (1,659 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,170 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 530 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,420 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 204 |
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).
Where are babies named Tonisha born?
The states with the most babies named Tonisha are California, Illinois and New York, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 211 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 196 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New York | 116 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 94 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 87 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 64 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 54 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 50 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 24 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Tonisha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tonisha is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1970 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tonisha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,084 babies since 1880, Tonisha is the most given (72% 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 Tonisha
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 Tonisha and names like it
- Compare Tonisha and ToneshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTonisha peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tonisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Tonisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tonisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.