Meaning not yet researched.
Tanisha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #318 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #318 in 1982; #6,802 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tanisha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,802 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #318.
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Tanisha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #318 in 1982 · most girls in one year: 758 (1982).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Tanisha, making it the 6,802nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,670 places from #5,132 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 26 girls named Tanisha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #318, reached in 1982. That year also had the most girls given the name: 758. For comparison, it was #3,175 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tanisha in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 5 babies. In all, 19,361 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 6,825 babies named Tanisha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 287 US girls were named Tanisha; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tanesha (5,307 babies since 1880) and Taneisha (2,038 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Taniesha, Tanasha and Taneesha are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Taniesha (775), Tanasha (606), Taneesha (525), Tanaisha (235), Tanysha (228), Tanaysha (142), Taneasha (88), Tannisha (66), Tannesha (7), Tahnisha (5), Tahnesha (5), Taneysha (5), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tanisha in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,802 | — | — |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,132 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,901 | — | — |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,443 | — | — |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,384 | — | — |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,299 | — | — |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,780 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,996 | — | — |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,914 | — | — |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,580 | — | — |
| 2015 | 53 | #3,175 | — | — |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,322 | — | — |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,933 | — | — |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,545 | — | — |
| 2011 | 94 | #2,069 | — | — |
| 2010 | 107 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,314 | — | — |
| 2008 | 131 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 2007 | 130 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 2006 | 136 | #1,589 | — | — |
| 2005 | 141 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 2004 | 136 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 2003 | 135 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 2002 | 142 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 2001 | 165 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 2000 | 165 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1999 | 180 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1998 | 249 | #857 | — | — |
| 1997 | 292 | #733 | — | — |
| 1996 | 421 | #556 | — | — |
| 1995 | 447 | #534 | — | — |
| 1994 | 573 | #442 | — | — |
| 1993 | 579 | #434 | — | — |
| 1992 | 668 | #388 | — | — |
| 1991 | 681 | #376 | — | — |
| 1990 | 681 | #387 | — | — |
| 1989 | 615 | #402 | 8 | #6,164 |
| 1988 | 618 | #389 | — | — |
| 1987 | 685 | #350 | — | — |
| 1986 | 679 | #350 | — | — |
| 1985 | 631 | #369 | 6 | #6,443 |
| 1984 | 657 | #351 | — | — |
| 1983 | 724 | #320 | — | — |
| 1982 | 758 | #318 | — | — |
| 1981 | 693 | #339 | — | — |
| 1980 | 751 | #325 | — | — |
| 1979 | 687 | #343 | — | — |
| 1978 | 652 | #335 | — | — |
| 1977 | 735 | #321 | 7 | #5,066 |
| 1976 | 655 | #340 | — | — |
| 1975 | 631 | #345 | — | — |
| 1974 | 611 | #354 | — | — |
| 1973 | 525 | #389 | — | — |
| 1972 | 629 | #352 | — | — |
| 1971 | 374 | #506 | — | — |
| 1970 | 129 | #977 | — | — |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,577 | — | — |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,200 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,738 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).