Tenesha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tenesha has been given to 1,438 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1984, with 97 recorded.
Babies named Tenesha, 2001
1 in 374,000
Tenesha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Tenesha?
Tenesha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2001
- 1 in 374,000
- 10 of 3,742,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 180,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 259,389 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tenesha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 259,389 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tenesha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Teneshas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tenesha was born before 1984 — so the typical Tenesha is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 49.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 85.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,438
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 49.2% of all recorded uses (707).
Is Tenesha 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 1984 (97)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.6% average annual change
Spellings of Tenesha
Tenesha is not the most common spelling — Teresa is, with 80.2% against Tenesha's 0.28%.
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 Tenesha is used
Across 1910–2025, Tenesha was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 212,410 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 100,000
- 2Georgia1 in 100,000
- 3Illinois1 in 100,000
- 4Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 5California1 in —
- 6Florida1 in —
- 7Michigan1 in —
- 8Mississippi1 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. Tenesha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tenesha around the world
Where Tenesha 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 & Wales1997–2007#4,294in 2007
- Canada1993–2000#2,195in 2000
- South Australia1998–2005#775in 2005
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.
Tenesha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tenesha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tenesha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.