girls:
19.3k births since 1967
#1056 (82nd percentile)
boys:
21 births since 1977
#4565 (0th percentile)
overall:
19.3k births since 1967
#1849 (76th percentile)
The name Tanisha is the #1,849 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,318 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 76.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,056 (81.5% percentile) for all time with 19,297 births since 1967. For boys, it ranks #4,565 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1977.
Tanisha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for girls and 1977 for boys).
The name Tanisha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tanisha reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 61.7% percentile (ranked #304) with 418 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 447 births per million (ranked 61.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1980, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tanisha ranks #935 for girls (1.3% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 2.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Tanisha reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #750) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tanisha".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tanisha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.6% confident that Tanisha is pronounced as tuh-NEE-shuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tuh-NIH-shuh, at 32.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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