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Tanisha

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Tanisha is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 25 births. Its best rank was 318th, in 1982.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
250.00% of girls
Peak year
1982758 births
Best rank
#318in 1982
Since 1967
19,322people given the name
Babies named Tanisha, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

19,322 girls have been named Tanisha in the United States since 1967, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1982, with 758 births.

The name has all but left use: 25 births in 2024, against 758 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1985, and the 1980s alone account for 35%. It has spent 29 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Tanisha
1960s44
1970s5,628
1980s6,811
1990s4,771
2000s1,366
2010s593
2020s109

In 1982, its biggest year

Tanisha was the 318th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1982 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1982.

Names that rose and fell with Tanisha

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.