Taneesh
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Taneesh has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 2014. 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 2014, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Taneesh, 2022
1 in 677,000
Taneesh over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Taneesh?
Taneesh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 677,000
- 5 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 349,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Taneesh sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taneesh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Taneeshs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Taneesh was born before 2015 — so the typical Taneesh is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 75.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 20
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 75.0% of all recorded uses (15).
Is Taneesh 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 2014 (5)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Taneesh
Taneesh is not the most common spelling — Aneesh is, with 62.4% against Taneesh's 1.4%.
Taneesh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Taneesh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Taneesh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.