Taneshia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Taneshia has been given to 1,309 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 1987, with 81 recorded.
Babies named Taneshia, 2007
1 in 500,000
Taneshia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Taneshia?
Taneshia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 500,000
- 8 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 240,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 346,380 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Taneshia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 346,380 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taneshia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Taneshias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Taneshia was born before 1986 — so the typical Taneshia is around 39 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 47.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 64.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,309
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 47.0% of all recorded uses (615).
Is Taneshia 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
- —
- 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 1987 (81)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.0% average annual change
Spellings of Taneshia
Taneshia is not the most common spelling — Tanisha is, with 33.3% against Taneshia's 2.3%.
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 Taneshia is used
Across 1910–2025, Taneshia was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 255,207 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 50,000
- 2Alabama1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in 100,000
- 4Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 5Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 6South Carolina1 in 100,000
- 7California1 in —
- 8Illinois1 in —
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. Taneshia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Taneshia around the world
Where Taneshia 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 & Wales1998–1998#3,848in 1998
- South Australia2009–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Taneshia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Taneshia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Taneshia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.