How Many People Are Named Tanesha?

5,137

people named Tanesha are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 66,533 people in the US has this name

Based on 5,307 babies named Tanesha in Social Security records from 1969 to 2014, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,654

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,049

See the top 100

Peak Year

1983

280 births

Trend

2014

Last year given

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: African American
Pronunciation: tΙ™-NEE-shΙ™
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of TANISHA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Tanesha in English. Counting Tanesha and these spellings together, about 23,846 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Tanesha in the records were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Tanesha alive today is about 39 years old, and 87% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 33 and 45 in 2025.

Under 30 658
12.8%
30 to 59 4,478
87.2%
60 and over 0
0%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Tanesha first appears in the records in 1969 and was given most often in 1983, to 280 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2014.

Babies given the name each year, 1969 to 2014

πŸ† Rank History

Tanesha has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #620, in 1983.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#620 (1983)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#759 in the 1980s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Tanesha alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Tanesha were born in California than in any other state: about 430 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Tanesha was given 2.6 times as often in Alabama, 2.6 times in Georgia and 2.4 times in South Carolina.

California 430
Illinois 361
New York 344
Texas 273
Michigan 244
Georgia 242
Florida 231
Ohio 207
Pennsylvania 191
North Carolina 154
Alabama 146
Virginia 139
New Jersey 137
South Carolina 109
Tennessee 80
Mississippi 76
Louisiana 74
Arkansas 64
Missouri 61
Maryland 57
Indiana 48
District of Columbia 32
Kentucky 21
Oklahoma 16
Wisconsin 11
Massachusetts 7
Connecticut 6

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