# Tanisha (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tanisha/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 19,361 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 21 / 19,340 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,131, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 94 | 2,069 |
| 2012 | 72 | 2,545 |
| 2013 | 58 | 2,933 |
| 2014 | 49 | 3,322 |
| 2015 | 53 | 3,175 |
| 2016 | 44 | 3,580 |
| 2017 | 39 | 3,914 |
| 2018 | 37 | 3,996 |
| 2019 | 40 | 3,780 |
| 2020 | 24 | 5,299 |
| 2021 | 24 | 5,384 |
| 2022 | 19 | 6,443 |
| 2023 | 17 | 6,901 |
| 2024 | 26 | 5,132 |
| 2025 | 17 | 6,802 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 7 | 5,066 |
| 1985 | 6 | 6,443 |
| 1989 | 8 | 6,164 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 122 | 383 |
| 2012 | 85 | 509 |
| 2013 | 78 | 536 |
| 2014 | 47 | 814 |
| 2015 | 51 | 760 |
| 2016 | 43 | 861 |
| 2017 | 31 | 1,105 |
| 2018 | 35 | 1,013 |
| 2019 | 21 | 1,439 |
| 2020 | 15 | 1,846 |
| 2021 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,888 |
| 2023 | 15 | 1,863 |
| 2024 | 15 | 1,894 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,278 |

## People named Tanisha

- Tanisha Wright, American basketball player (born 1983)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.