Takisha
Feminine
Within one family of American names the same consonant gets spelled two ways for two different reasons. Where a qu appears, it is signaling where the stress falls. Where a plain k appears, as here, it is doing the ordinary job of spelling a k sound, and the stress has to be worked out from elsewhere.
How old is the name Takisha?
Takisha first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Takisha alive today was born around 1979, making them about 46 years old. About 2,000 people named Takisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Takisha most popular?
Takisha peaked in 1977, reaching #758 nationally. See the whole 1977 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Takisha
The middle of the name lands on a real word somewhere else. Kisha, in Serbian and Croatian, is the ordinary everyday word for rain — spelled with a diacritic in those languages, but pronounced exactly as this spelling suggests. There is no connection whatever; the two arrived at the same syllable from opposite ends of the world and by completely different processes. But a name assembled from sounds will always land on somebody's vocabulary, and it is worth knowing which, because a bearer traveling will meet it sooner or later and would rather not be surprised.
Meaningnot established
Not established
A prefix carrying no sense, a linking vowel carrying none, and an ending borrowed from names where it was etymological. Nothing translatable is present, and any page offering a reading has supplied it from imagination.
Pronouncing Takisha
tuh-KEE-shuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The prefix is unstressed and reduces almost to nothing, as prefixes of this kind always do.
Nicknames for Takisha
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1970
- Most girls named
- 1977200 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #758reached in 1977
- Change vs 2003
- 0.0%5 in 2004, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Takishas among us
people named Takisha are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Takisha sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Kisha sits inside it as a complete and independent short form.
- The rhythm is even and the name is comfortable to say quickly.
- The spelling follows the sound with no ambiguity.
- Taquisha and Takeisha both exist and the spelling gets queried.
- There is no inherited meaning to pass on.
- It reads clearly as belonging to a particular American generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Takishas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Takisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Takisha in 2025?
- Takisha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Takisha with classmates?
- Takisha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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