The baby name Tanisha is a Girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced tuh-NEE-shuh.
Tanisha is African American, English, Sanskrit in Origin.
The baby name Tanisha is a girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced tuh-NEE-shuh.
Tanisha is African American, English, Sanskrit in Origin.
Tanisha has a layered modern history. In South Asian use, its recoverable written form is Devanagari तनीषा, transliterated Tanīṣā, a Sanskritic feminine related to Tanish; name dictionaries gloss it as ambition or aspiration, though it is better regarded as a modern Sanskrit-based given name than a transparent ancient compound. In American English, the spelling also fits the productive -isha ending.
U.S. use is especially tied to African American naming from the late 1960s onward. Government SSA records place Tanisha’s main rise in the 1970s and early 1980s, and NBER labor-economics research later used Tanisha among explicitly Black-associated resume names, showing its community recognition. The actress Ta-Tanisha on Room 222 likely helped visibility; spellings such as Tanesha, Taneisha, Tenisha, and Tynisha followed.
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | Girls | 2013 | #1 | — | 969 |
| FJ | Girls | 0 | #9 | 1 | 583 |
| BD | Girls | 0 | #42 | 844 | 8,413 |
| JM | 0 | #66 | 22 | 3,714 | |
| IN | 0 | #69 | 3 | 2,963 | |
| JM | Girls | 0 | #89 | 229 | 7,507 |
| BD | 0 | #91 | 156 | 5,992 | |
| ID | Girls | 0 | #102 | 1 | 3,319 |
| BN | Girls | 0 | #114 | 1 | 5,459 |
| CY | Girls | 0 | #125 | 1 | 3,755 |
| MU | 0 | #137 | 1 | 3,613 | |
| PA | 0 | #137 | 2 | 3,797 | |
| PR | Girls | 0 | #147 | 15 | 3,171 |
| BW | Girls | 0 | #148 | 4 | 4,216 |
| MT | Girls | 0 | #153 | 1 | 3,773 |
| BW | Boys | 0 | #154 | 1 | 4,685 |
| CR | 0 | #162 | 4 | 5,526 | |
| Sweden | Girls | 2012 | #170 | 3 | 1,538 |
| AO | Girls | 0 | #216 | 2 | 4,575 |
| NA | Girls | 0 | #237 | 1 | 7,146 |
| GR | Girls | 0 | #248 | 2 | 6,293 |
| JP | Girls | 0 | #251 | 1 | 6,592 |
| NG | 0 | #272 | 1 | 5,926 | |
| Canada | Girls | 2024 | #281 | 5 | 2,795 |
| SG | 0 | #282 | 1 | 11,010 | |
| TW | Girls | 0 | #288 | 2 | 8,139 |
| JM | Boys | 0 | #289 | 5 | 6,876 |
| QA | Girls | 0 | #300 | 17 | 15,378 |
| SA | 0 | #312 | 1 | 10,560 | |
| JO | Girls | 0 | #332 | 8 | 7,570 |
| MU | Girls | 0 | #336 | 16 | 8,539 |
| GH | Girls | 0 | #337 | 1 | 6,973 |
| MY | 0 | #353 | 2 | 12,352 | |
| OM | Girls | 0 | #353 | 44 | 15,987 |
| HK | 0 | #357 | 1 | 8,483 | |
| IN | Girls | 0 | #380 | 276 | 13,121 |
| YE | 0 | #398 | 1 | 8,639 | |
| France | Girls | 2021 | #401 | 5 | 3,185 |
| BO | 0 | #408 | 1 | 6,868 | |
| PA | Girls | 0 | #421 | 61 | 9,861 |
| PH | Girls | 0 | #428 | 2 | 13,098 |
| MX | 0 | #445 | 1 | 8,339 | |
| ZA | 0 | #467 | 8 | 14,421 | |
| PT | Girls | 0 | #471 | 1 | 7,952 |
| KW | Girls | 0 | #505 | 11 | 19,177 |
| PA | Boys | 0 | #505 | 1 | 9,305 |
| CR | Girls | 0 | #506 | 27 | 11,342 |
| AE | Girls | 0 | #518 | 36 | 20,968 |
| BD | Boys | 0 | #518 | 59 | 10,045 |
| RU | Girls | 0 | #520 | 4 | 11,913 |
| IQ | Girls | 0 | #523 | 3 | 11,303 |
| BH | 0 | #534 | 20 | 17,937 | |
| GT | Girls | 0 | #541 | 1 | 7,500 |
| IR | Girls | 0 | #545 | 1 | 8,334 |
| PS | Girls | 0 | #546 | 2 | 10,981 |
| SG | Girls | 0 | #555 | 32 | 18,916 |
| CM | Girls | 0 | #559 | 2 | 11,671 |
| LY | 0 | #559 | 1 | 12,703 | |
| AR | Girls | 0 | #629 | 2 | 8,289 |
| HK | Girls | 0 | #643 | 8 | 16,104 |
| IL | Girls | 0 | #645 | 1 | 11,648 |
| IQ | Boys | 0 | #697 | 1 | 13,071 |
| Finland | Girls | 2026 | #732 | 7 | 3,895 |
| SG | Boys | 0 | #739 | 1 | 17,960 |
| QA | Boys | 0 | #743 | 1 | 18,093 |
| KW | Boys | 0 | #806 | 1 | 18,755 |
| Germany | Girls | 0 | #824 | 15 | 4,949 |
| NG | Girls | 0 | #826 | 1 | 15,093 |
| NL | Girls | 0 | #836 | 120 | 5,933 |
| SA | Girls | 0 | #859 | 77 | 25,931 |
| United States | Girls | 2024 | #892 | 25 | 8,487 |
| CL | Girls | 0 | #911 | 5 | 14,098 |
| OM | Boys | 0 | #916 | 3 | 17,948 |
| EG | Boys | 0 | #925 | 1 | 15,035 |
| MY | Girls | 0 | #963 | 32 | 24,821 |
| IN | Boys | 0 | #985 | 17 | 16,750 |
| EG | Girls | 0 | #1,008 | 2 | 14,742 |
| PE | Girls | 0 | #1,008 | 3 | 14,861 |
| ZA | Girls | 0 | #1,066 | 76 | 25,928 |
| AE | Boys | 0 | #1,141 | 3 | 22,615 |
| CO | Girls | 0 | #1,145 | 8 | 16,140 |
| MY | Boys | 0 | #1,181 | 2 | 25,439 |
| TR | 0 | #1,254 | 1 | 19,440 | |
| MX | Girls | 0 | #1,262 | 6 | 17,781 |
| IT | Girls | 0 | #1,428 | 19 | 9,415 |
| SA | Boys | 0 | #1,592 | 23 | 28,008 |
Tanisha is popular in 58 countries — most recent births per country:
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