Tanisha
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #5,615
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1982 · 758 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 19,340since 1967
Tanisha over time
Rank among girls' names. Tanisha has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 | — | |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,237 | 24 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,718 | 40 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,918 | 37 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,848 | 39 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,523 | 44 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,129 | 53 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,272 | 49 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,903 | 58 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,516 | 72 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,058 | 94 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,886 | 107 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,286 | 85 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,704 | 131 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,689 | 130 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,581 | 136 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,488 | 141 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,480 | 136 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,454 | 135 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,363 | 142 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,225 | 165 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,203 | 165 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,103 | 180 | — | |
| 1998 | #855 | 249 | — | |
| 1997 | #728 | 292 | — | |
| 1996 | #554 | 421 | — | |
| 1995 | #533 | 447 | — | |
| 1994 | #442 | 573 | — | |
| 1993 | #434 | 579 | — | |
| 1992 | #388 | 668 | — | |
| 1991 | #376 | 681 | — | |
| 1990 | #387 | 681 | — | |
| 1989 | #400 | 615 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #388 | 618 | — | |
| 1987 | #350 | 685 | — | |
| 1986 | #350 | 679 | — | |
| 1985 | #369 | 631 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #350 | 657 | — | |
| 1983 | #320 | 724 | — | |
| 1982 | #318 | 758 | — | |
| 1981 | #339 | 693 | — | |
| 1980 | #324 | 751 | — | |
| 1979 | #343 | 687 | — | |
| 1978 | #334 | 652 | — | |
| 1977 | #321 | 735 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #339 | 655 | — | |
| 1975 | #345 | 631 | — | |
| 1974 | #354 | 611 | — | |
| 1973 | #389 | 525 | — | |
| 1972 | #352 | 629 | — | |
| 1971 | #506 | 374 | — | |
| 1970 | #974 | 129 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,515 | 27 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,000 | 12 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tanisha! It came in at #6,804, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1967, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Tanisha
- 1,525 spots since 2024 (#5,021 → #6,546)
- 1,378 spots since 2020 (#5,168 → #6,546)
- 3,417 spots since 2015 (#3,129 → #6,546)
- Biggest jump: 1,541 spots in 1970 (#2,515 → #974)
- Biggest drop: 248 spots in 1999 (#855 → #1,103)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 1982 at #318 (758 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1970–1998
- Highest: 1 in 2,086 girls born in 1977 were named Tanisha (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #318 in 1982, was only 1 in 2,234 (0.04%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.2% of all girls named Tanisha (6,811) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 44 | #2,515 (1969) | #4,440 |
| 1970s | 5,628 | #321 (1977) | #426 |
| 1980s | 6,811 | #318 (1982) | #351 |
| 1990s | 4,771 | #376 (1991) | #580 |
| 2000s | 1,366 | #1,203 (2000) | #1,547 |
| 2010s | 593 | #1,886 (2010) | #3,077 |
| 2020s | 127 | #5,021 (2024) | #5,814 |
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.
Tanisha in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 2,727 of them was named Tanisha, which outranked 97.0% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 308,035 of them was named Tanisha, which outranked 23.7% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,147Zerrick7
- #5,147Zubin7
- #5,147Zvi7
- #5,785Tanisha6
- #5,785Aadil6
- #5,785Aarion6
- #5,785Abdel6
- #6,523Aamil5
- #6,523Aarik5
- #6,523Abayomi5
Tied with 737 names at #5,785; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.