first name
TANISHA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 16,310 people named Tanisha, 73.1% reported their origin as Black, 7.4% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.5% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Tanisha peaked in 1982, when 758 babies got the name.
At least 19,361 babies have been given the name since 1967. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Tanisha by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #667. The largest share of babies named Tanisha, 52.3%, 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. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Tanisha is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tanisha has been most common in District of Columbia (2.3×), New Jersey (1.9×), and Michigan (1.7×), and least common in Kentucky (0.22×).
17,349 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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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tanisha, most common first.
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