Tanisha
Feminine · “born on Monday”
Tanisha is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 19,340 girls against 21 boys since 1880.
Tanisha joins a Ta- front to an -isha ending, both productive in American naming — and a Hausa word for a Monday-born daughter is sometimes claimed alongside it.
How old is the name Tanisha?
Tanisha first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Tanisha alive today was born around 1985, making them about 40 years old. About 19,000 people named Tanisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tanisha most popular?
Tanisha peaked in 1982, reaching #318 nationally. Today it ranks #6546, 6,228 places below that high. See the whole 1982 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Tanisha
The Ta-, La- and Sha- prefixes were highly productive in American naming from the 1960s, combining with -isha, -esha and -ika endings. Tanisha appears in the registers from the late 1960s, rose sharply through the 1970s, and peaked in the mid-1970s — one of the best-documented waves of deliberate name-building in the language.
Meaningscholars disagree
born on Monday
Two accounts. The commoner and better-supported reading treats it as an American coinage from the Ta- prefix and the -isha ending. A second attributes it to the Hausa Tanisha, said to mean 'born on Monday'; the connection is repeated widely but is not well evidenced.
Pronouncing Tanisha
tuh-NEE-shuh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Tanisha and Tanesha are said identically.
Nicknames for Tanisha
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
- 1967
- Most girls named
- 1982758 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #318reached in 1982
- Change vs 2024
- −34.6%17 in 2025, from 26
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.
Tanisha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tanesha in English — spelling variant
- Latisha in English — related form
- Keisha in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Florida.
Tanishas among us
people named Tanisha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 94,545 born in 2025 was named Tanisha
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Greta test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tanisha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Greta climbed just as high around 1932, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Greta's path sketches the road Tanisha is walking now.
Tanisha sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Tanisha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tanisha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Nisha is available as a short form that is a real name in Sanskrit.
- It belongs to a real and well-documented period of American name-building.
- Three syllables with a strong middle, a rhythm that carries well.
- The Hausa reading is widely repeated but poorly evidenced.
- Several spellings of the sound are in use.
- It is closely dated to the 1970s in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tanishas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 19,000 people named Tanisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tanisha in 2025?
- Tanisha ranks #6546 among US girl names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tanisha?
- About 1 in every 94,545 US girls born in 2025 was named Tanisha — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tanisha with classmates?
- Tanisha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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