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Tanesha

Girls' name

Variant of Tanisha

Tanesha has been given to 5,307 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1983, with 280 recorded.

Babies named Tanesha, 2014

1 in 412,000

Tanesha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tanesha: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tanisha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tanesha means

Tanesha is a variant of Tanisha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tanesha is used in African American.

Another recorded pronunciation is /tə.ˈni.ʃə/ for Tanesha.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tanisha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,307 girls were recorded with the name Tanesha between 1969 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 280 in 1983; its best national rank was #620 in 1983.

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 Tanesha?

Tanesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 412,000
9 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 198,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
285,486 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tanesha 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 2014 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 285,486 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tanesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taneshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tanesha was born before 1986 — so the typical Tanesha is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
42.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,307
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 42.6% of all recorded uses (2,262).

Is Tanesha 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1983 (280)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#620
1983

Spellings of Tanesha

Tanesha is not the most common spelling — Vanessa is, with 56.1% against Tanesha's 1.1%.

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 Tanesha is used

Across 1910–2025, Tanesha was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 34,346 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 16,667
  2. 2Alabama1 in 20,000
  3. 3District of Columbia1 in 20,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 20,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 20,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 25,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 25,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 25,000

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. Tanesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tanesha around the world

Where Tanesha 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
    1996–2010
    #4,012
    in 2010
  • Canada
    1991–2009
    #3,263
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1995–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tanesha 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
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Best rank ever
#620
1983
Peak year
1983
280 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
5,307
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tanesha

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

TanishaTaneishaTanashaTanieshaTaniyahTaneeshaTanyshaTaniyaTanaishaTanasiaTannerKenishaTangelaTanayaAleishaTanayshaDanishaDaishaAnishaTanikaAyeshaPorshaAlayshaTanvi

Names with a curve like Tanesha

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

ShanikaShanteCasieKeshiaFelishaShantellCodySamathaShamikaShavonTarahShanell

Sibling names for Tanesha

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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