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.
Where Tanisha is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#330 · 1 in 1,523
- New Mexico#342 · 1 in 1,411
- Massachusetts#399 · 1 in 2,659
- Alabama#480 · 1 in 2,978
- South Carolina#484 · 1 in 2,798
Best ever in a state: #105 in District of Columbia, 1987.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #330 | 8 | 1 in 1,523 |
| New Mexico | #342 | 6 | 1 in 1,411 |
| Massachusetts | #399 | 12 | 1 in 2,659 |
| Alabama | #480 | 7 | 1 in 2,978 |
| South Carolina | #484 | 6 | 1 in 2,798 |
| Georgia | #491 | 14 | 1 in 3,181 |
| Florida | #520 | 22 | 1 in 3,376 |
| New York | #596 | 26 | 1 in 3,874 |
| Virginia | #624 | 8 | 1 in 4,239 |
| Tennessee | #639 | 7 | 1 in 4,361 |
| Michigan | #645 | 11 | 1 in 4,683 |
| Missouri | #688 | 6 | 1 in 4,948 |
| Arizona | #702 | 7 | 1 in 4,173 |
| Pennsylvania | #781 | 9 | 1 in 6,478 |
| North Carolina | #805 | 7 | 1 in 6,013 |
| Ohio | #850 | 8 | 1 in 7,703 |
| Washington | #857 | 5 | 1 in 5,846 |
| New Jersey | #1,016 | 5 | 1 in 8,297 |
| Illinois | #1,059 | 8 | 1 in 8,802 |
| California | #1,374 | 17 | 1 in 13,001 |
| Texas | #1,435 | 11 | 1 in 13,040 |
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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 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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 7,096 of them was named Tanisha, which outranked 94.8% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).