Tinashe
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tinashe has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 2008. 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 2015, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 78% girls, 22% boys all-time.
Babies named Tinashe, 2017
1 in 715,000
Tinashe 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Tinashe over time
In 2017, Tinashe went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Tinashe?
Tinashe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 715,000
- 5 of 3,577,106 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 495,893 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tinashe sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tinashe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tinashes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tinashe was born before 2015 — so the typical Tinashe is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 72.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 18
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 72.2% of all recorded uses (13).
Is Tinashe 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 2015 (8)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Tinashe
Tinashe is not the most common spelling — Tinisha is, with 45.2% against Tinashe's 0.71%.
Tinashe around the world
Where Tinashe 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 & Wales1997–2024#4,844in 2024
- Canada2015–2016#3,204in 2016
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Tinashe by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Tinashe
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tinashe
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.