Tamisha
Feminine
The i in the middle of this name is not from anywhere. It is a linking vowel, put in because the two pieces either side of it will not join without one, and it carries no meaning and no history. English builds words this way constantly and almost never admits it.
How old is the name Tamisha?
Tamisha first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Tamisha alive today was born around 1982, making them about 43 years old. About 2,100 people named Tamisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tamisha most popular?
Tamisha peaked in 1974, reaching #994 nationally. See the whole 1974 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Tamar to Tamisha
The story of Tamisha
The name furthest back in this chain belongs to a woman who is in the New Testament for a reason worth knowing. Matthew opens his gospel with a genealogy, and genealogies of that period list fathers; four women are named in it anyway, and each of them has a story that a family compiling a respectable lineage would have preferred to leave out. Tamar is the first. She was widowed twice, denied the protection she was owed by her father-in-law, disguised herself, secured proof of what he had done and produced it in public when he tried to have her executed. The text lets him say that she was more in the right than he was, and then puts her in the list.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The front element points toward the short forms of Tamara and Tamar, and the ending contributes nothing translatable. With a linking vowel in the middle carrying no sense either, there is nothing to report as a meaning.
How the name formed
- Tamar
- Tamara
- Tami
- Tamisha
Pronouncing Tamisha
tuh-MEE-shuh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle, which falls on the linking vowel rather than on either of the pieces it joins.
Nicknames for Tamisha
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
- 1968
- Most girls named
- 1974122 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #994reached in 1974
- Change vs 2006
- −12.5%7 in 2007, from 8
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.
Tamishas among us
people named Tamisha 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
Tamisha 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
- Tami sits inside it as an established and familiar short form.
- The rhythm is even and comfortable to say quickly.
- The spelling follows the sound with no ambiguity.
- There is no inherited meaning, and the middle of the word is empty by construction.
- Tameesha, Tamesha and Tamiesha all exist and the spelling gets queried.
- It reads clearly as belonging to a particular American generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tamishas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Tamisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tamisha in 2025?
- Tamisha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Tamisha with classmates?
- Tamisha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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