Tynisha
Tynisha was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 1,673 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,620 Americans named Tynisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 32 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tynisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tynisha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tynisha is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tynisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,094, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
82 babies in 1977, the peak
Tynisha peaked in 1977, when 82 girls were given it, #1,378 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #19,094 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,398 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,188 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,625 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,741 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,607 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,532 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,513 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,639 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,866 | 9.3 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 13 | #8,252 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,198 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,137 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,710 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 43 | #3,005 | 24.3 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,870 | 24.7 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,085 | 22.2 |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,076 | 37.5 |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,225 | 33.6 |
| 1993 | 64 | #2,119 | 35.4 |
| 1992 | 60 | #2,232 | 32.5 |
| 1991 | 79 | #1,810 | 42.1 |
| 1990 | 75 | #1,887 | 39.5 |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,296 | 28.2 |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,146 | 30.3 |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,095 | 30.5 |
| 1986 | 67 | #1,749 | 39.1 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,830 | 36.0 |
| 1984 | 70 | #1,602 | 41.6 |
| 1983 | 71 | #1,584 | 42.5 |
| 1982 | 57 | #1,897 | 33.7 |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,847 | 36.0 |
| 1980 | 69 | #1,675 | 41.6 |
| 1979 | 61 | #1,793 | 38.0 |
| 1978 | 68 | #1,597 | 44.4 |
| 1977 | 82 | #1,378 | 53.5 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,819 | 35.5 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,766 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 24 | #3,004 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,575 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,459 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tynisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tynisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tynisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tynisha, and how old are they?
1,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,673 Americans ever recorded as Tynisha. The median Tynisha alive today is 38 years old; half are between 32 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,260 people named Tynisha (1,260 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,635 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 | 377 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 961 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 278 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,251 babies since 1880, Tynisha is the most given (27% 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 Tynisha
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 Tynisha and names like it
- Compare Tynisha and TyneshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTynisha peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tynisha since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Tynisha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Tynisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tynisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.