Tanishq
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tanishq has been given to 42 babies in the U.S. since 2005. 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 2013, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Tanishq, 2016
1 in 734,000
Tanishq 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Tanishq?
Tanishq had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 734,000
- 5 of 3,669,531 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 380,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 508,706 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tanishq sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tanishq. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tanishqs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tanishq was born before 2012 — so the typical Tanishq is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 61.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 42
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 61.9% of all recorded uses (26).
Is Tanishq 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2013 (8)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.9% average annual change
Spellings of Tanishq
Tanishq is not the most common spelling — Anish is, with 56.1% against Tanishq's 0.76%.
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.
Tanishq around the world
Where Tanishq 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 & Wales2006–2025#3,684in 2025
- Canada2017–2017#2,944in 2017
- South Australia2008–2008#726in 2008
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.
Tanishq by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tanishq
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tanishq
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.