Meaning not yet researched.
Tasha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #130 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #130 in 1980; #7,854 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tasha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,854 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #130.
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Tasha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #130 in 1980 · most girls in one year: 2,266 (1980).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Tasha, making it the 7,854th most common girls’ name of the year, up 532 places from #8,386 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 13 girls named Tasha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #130, reached in 1980. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,266. For comparison, it was #7,968 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tasha in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 8 babies. In all, 35,634 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 16,311 babies named Tasha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 172 US girls were named Tasha; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Natasha (97,937 babies since 1880), Latasha (30,325 babies since 1880), Tosha (6,727 babies since 1880) and Taisha (2,838 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Taysha, Tashay and Tahisha are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Tash and Tashie.
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 English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Taysha (692), Tashay (537), Tahisha (373), Tashae (350), Taiesha (251), Taesha (198), Tahesha (165), Tashaya (84), Tashai (71), Taiasha (28), Taeisha (25), Thasha (22), 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.
Tasha is listed as a nickname for Natasha.
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 | 14 | #7,854 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,386 | — | — |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,728 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,993 | — | — |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,601 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,905 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,991 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,383 | — | — |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,036 | — | — |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,966 | — | — |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,968 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,682 | — | — |
| 2013 | 28 | #5,005 | — | — |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,238 | — | — |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,776 | — | — |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,723 | — | — |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,296 | — | — |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,314 | — | — |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,819 | — | — |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,509 | — | — |
| 2005 | 82 | #2,237 | — | — |
| 2004 | 94 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 2003 | 89 | #2,031 | — | — |
| 2002 | 149 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 2001 | 120 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 2000 | 162 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1999 | 191 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1998 | 194 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1997 | 273 | #771 | — | — |
| 1996 | 336 | #663 | — | — |
| 1995 | 463 | #522 | — | — |
| 1994 | 539 | #469 | — | — |
| 1993 | 687 | #371 | — | — |
| 1992 | 807 | #332 | — | — |
| 1991 | 959 | #293 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,154 | #246 | 5 | #9,352 |
| 1989 | 1,205 | #228 | — | — |
| 1988 | 1,306 | #200 | — | — |
| 1987 | 1,278 | #208 | — | — |
| 1986 | 1,302 | #200 | 8 | #5,276 |
| 1985 | 1,481 | #181 | 6 | #6,448 |
| 1984 | 1,682 | #164 | — | — |
| 1983 | 1,834 | #156 | 5 | #7,218 |
| 1982 | 1,883 | #158 | 11 | #3,931 |
| 1981 | 2,018 | #141 | 15 | #3,014 |
| 1980 | 2,266 | #130 | 11 | #3,818 |
| 1979 | 1,401 | #190 | 9 | #4,367 |
| 1978 | 1,053 | #235 | 5 | #6,658 |
| 1977 | 1,115 | #224 | 11 | #3,581 |
| 1976 | 1,106 | #218 | — | — |
| 1975 | 1,084 | #223 | 9 | #3,918 |
| 1974 | 1,344 | #190 | — | — |
| 1973 | 1,122 | #226 | 6 | #5,022 |
| 1972 | 1,136 | #240 | — | — |
| 1971 | 1,018 | #282 | 5 | #5,574 |
| 1970 | 592 | #399 | — | — |
| 1969 | 370 | #507 | — | — |
| 1968 | 261 | #596 | — | — |
| 1967 | 205 | #676 | — | — |
| 1966 | 214 | #661 | — | — |
| 1965 | 58 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1964 | 47 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 1963 | 47 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,585 | — | — |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,067 | — | — |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,481 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,793 | — | — |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,080 | — | — |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,689 | — | — |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,200 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,697 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,606 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,314 | — | — |
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).