Tanesha
Last seen for girls in 2014 at #10,955
- Peak · girls
- 1983 · 280 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,307since 1969
Tanesha over time
Rank among girls' names. Tanesha has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 |
| 2007 | #5,895 | 23 |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 |
| 2004 | #4,492 | 30 |
| 2003 | #4,220 | 31 |
| 2002 | #5,254 | 22 |
| 2001 | #3,142 | 44 |
| 2000 | #2,903 | 49 |
| 1999 | #2,640 | 53 |
| 1998 | #2,026 | 73 |
| 1997 | #1,419 | 117 |
| 1996 | #1,485 | 110 |
| 1995 | #1,355 | 121 |
| 1994 | #948 | 196 |
| 1993 | #996 | 186 |
| 1992 | #1,042 | 177 |
| 1991 | #797 | 257 |
| 1990 | #809 | 246 |
| 1989 | #871 | 212 |
| 1988 | #812 | 225 |
| 1987 | #838 | 208 |
| 1986 | #776 | 219 |
| 1985 | #813 | 201 |
| 1984 | #691 | 242 |
| 1983 | #619 | 280 |
| 1982 | #759 | 218 |
| 1981 | #708 | 237 |
| 1980 | #752 | 220 |
| 1979 | #778 | 205 |
| 1978 | #822 | 182 |
| 1977 | #854 | 172 |
| 1976 | #826 | 168 |
| 1975 | #932 | 136 |
| 1974 | #994 | 122 |
| 1973 | #1,169 | 93 |
| 1972 | #1,380 | 72 |
| 1971 | #2,599 | 28 |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tanesha! It came in at #6,617, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2015–2025, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Tanesha is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#218 · 1 in 1,015
- South Carolina#252 · 1 in 1,382
- Tennessee#310 · 1 in 2,087
- Alabama#348 · 1 in 2,100
- Virginia#525 · 1 in 3,918
Best ever in a state: #161 in District of Columbia, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #218 | 12 | 1 in 1,015 |
| South Carolina | #252 | 12 | 1 in 1,382 |
| Tennessee | #310 | 14 | 1 in 2,087 |
| Alabama | #348 | 10 | 1 in 2,100 |
| Virginia | #525 | 9 | 1 in 3,918 |
| Georgia | #621 | 9 | 1 in 4,528 |
| Pennsylvania | #691 | 11 | 1 in 5,903 |
| Missouri | #695 | 5 | 1 in 5,933 |
| Louisiana | #709 | 5 | 1 in 4,484 |
| Florida | #742 | 13 | 1 in 5,732 |
| North Carolina | #853 | 5 | 1 in 7,630 |
| Michigan | #878 | 7 | 1 in 7,744 |
| Ohio | #913 | 7 | 1 in 9,239 |
| New Jersey | #962 | 5 | 1 in 8,804 |
| New York | #1,058 | 12 | 1 in 9,268 |
| Illinois | #1,064 | 8 | 1 in 9,279 |
| Texas | #1,609 | 8 | 1 in 16,998 |
| California | #2,775 | 6 | 1 in 40,417 |
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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 Tanesha
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2014
- Biggest jump: 175 spots in 1974 (#1,169 → #994)
- Biggest drop: 407 spots in 1995 (#948 → #1,355)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1983 at #619 (280 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1974–1991
- Highest: 1 in 5,966 girls born in 1983 were named Tanesha (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 198,484 girls born in 2014 (0.00%)
- 42.6% of all girls named Tanesha (2,262) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 6 | #6,617 (1969) | #6,617 |
| 1970s | 1,189 | #778 (1979) | #1,512 |
| 1980s | 2,262 | #619 (1983) | #764 |
| 1990s | 1,536 | #797 (1991) | #1,352 |
| 2000s | 276 | #2,903 (2000) | #5,379 |
| 2010s | 38 | #10,374 (2011) | #12,959 |
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.
Tanesha in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 9,111 of them was named Tanesha, which outranked 94.0% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).