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Tenisha

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Tenisha has been given to 3,501 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 221 recorded.

Babies named Tenisha, 2013

1 in 729,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tenisha: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tenisha means

Tenisha is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tenisha is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,501 girls were recorded with the name Tenisha between 1968 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 221 in 1983; its best national rank was #744 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tenisha?

Tenisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 351,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,435 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tenisha 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 2013 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 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tenisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tenishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tenisha was born before 1984 — so the typical Tenisha is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,501
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (1,666).

Is Tenisha 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 1983 (221)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#744
1983

Spellings of Tenisha

Tenisha is not the most common spelling — Trisha is, with 20.1% against Tenisha's 1.7%.

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 Tenisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Tenisha was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 58,796 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 25,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 33,333
  3. 3Michigan1 in 33,333
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 33,333
  5. 5Alabama1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 50,000

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

Tenisha around the world

Where Tenisha 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
    1996–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1999–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Notable people named Tenisha

People whose public names include Tenisha, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tenisha 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
#744
1983
Peak year
1983
221 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
3,501
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tenisha

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

TeneshaTeneishaTennilleKenishaAleishaTenleyDanishaTenzinAlayshaPorshaPrishaTaishaTennieKalishaKeeshaAnishaDayshaDaishaJerushaKrishaLaishaTensleyTenashaTenille

Names with a curve like Tenisha

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

ShanitaNatoshaShavonMegganLateshaNatashiaShavonneNakitaShastaMeghannShamikaKeshia

Sibling names for Tenisha

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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