first name
TANESHA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,426 people named Tanesha, 86.1% reported their origin as Black, 5.2% as White and 4.4% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Tanesha peaked in 1983, when 280 babies got the name.
At least 5,307 babies have been given the name since 1969. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Tanesha by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,334. The largest share of babies named Tanesha, 62.8%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Tanesha is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tanesha has been most common in Georgia (2.3×), Alabama (2.1×), and South Carolina (2×), and least common in Indiana (0.54×).
3,891 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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