Tenisha

Where Tenisha comes from

The dictionaries list Tenisha as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #4,779 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1976
    Tenisha Yancey born
    American politician
  3. 1983
    Peak, #738
    221 babies named Tenisha — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,507.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Tenisha Yancey · American politician, born 1976

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.