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Takisha

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Takisha has been given to 2,058 babies in the U.S. since 1970. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 200 recorded.

Babies named Takisha, 2004

1 in 764,000

Takisha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Takisha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Takisha means

Takisha is a given name.

The naming story behind Takisha

Wikidata records Takisha as a given name. The entity identifier is Q123589984, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,058 girls were recorded with the name Takisha between 1970 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 200 in 1977; its best national rank was #760 in 1977.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Takisha?

Takisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2004
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Takisha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Takisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Takishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Takisha was born before 1979 — so the typical Takisha is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
52.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,058
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 52.6% of all recorded uses (1,082).

Is Takisha rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (200)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#760
1977

Spellings of Takisha

Takisha is not the most common spelling — Tabitha is, with 14.5% against Takisha's 0.50%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Takisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Takisha was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 102,607 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 50,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 50,000
  3. 3Maryland1 in 50,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 50,000
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8District of Columbia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Takisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Takisha around the world

Where Takisha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–1996
    #2,683
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Takisha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#760
1977
Peak year
1977
200 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
2,058
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Takisha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Takisha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Takisha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Takisha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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