Taniesha
Last seen for girls in 2004 at #9,892
- Peak · girls
- 1986 · 43 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 775since 1971
Taniesha over time
Rank among girls' names. Taniesha has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 |
| 1996 | #4,883 | 20 |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 |
| 1994 | #4,687 | 21 |
| 1993 | #3,158 | 36 |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 |
| 1991 | #2,449 | 51 |
| 1990 | #2,850 | 40 |
| 1989 | #2,527 | 45 |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 |
| 1987 | #2,657 | 37 |
| 1986 | #2,344 | 43 |
| 1985 | #3,084 | 29 |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 |
| 1983 | #2,595 | 34 |
| 1982 | #2,704 | 34 |
| 1981 | #2,986 | 29 |
| 1980 | #2,800 | 32 |
| 1979 | #3,078 | 27 |
| 1978 | #3,196 | 24 |
| 1977 | #3,761 | 19 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 |
| 1975 | #3,637 | 18 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
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| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Taniesha! It came in at #6,006, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Taniesha is popular in 1989
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,373 · 1 in 14,848
Best ever in a state: #843 in Pennsylvania, 1991.
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| New York | #1,373 | 8 | 1 in 14,848 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Taniesha
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2004
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1986 at #2,344 (43 births)
- Births halved by 1994, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 36,765 girls born in 1991 were named Taniesha (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 183,625 girls born in 2004 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,344 in 1986, was only 1 in 39,896 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 43.5% of all girls named Taniesha (337) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 120 | #3,078 (1979) | #4,962 |
| 1980s | 337 | #2,344 (1986) | #2,849 |
| 1990s | 263 | #2,449 (1991) | #4,830 |
| 2000s | 55 | #7,580 (2000) | #8,962 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Taniesha in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
More about 1989
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1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 40,968 of them was named Taniesha, which outranked 82.6% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,478Toby46
- #2,478Yesica46
- #2,478Zakia46
- #2,527Taniesha45
- #2,527Allisha45
- #2,527Ambrosia45
- #2,527Anh45
- #2,572Alexsandra44
- #2,572Andrianna44
- #2,572Anel44
Tied with 44 names at #2,527; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.