Tinisha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tinisha has been given to 1,145 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1980, with 67 recorded.
Babies named Tinisha, 2003
1 in 475,000
Tinisha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Tinisha?
Tinisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2003
- 1 in 475,000
- 8 of 3,801,425 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 228,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2003
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 329,370 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tinisha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 329,370 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tinisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tinishas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tinisha was born before 1983 — so the typical Tinisha is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 45.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 73.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,145
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (515).
Is Tinisha 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 1980 (67)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.4% average annual change
Spellings of Tinisha
Tinisha is not the most common spelling — Trisha is, with 28.4% against Tinisha's 0.81%.
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 Tinisha is used
Across 1910–2025, Tinisha was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 394,707 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Louisiana1 in —
- 4Michigan1 in —
- 5Mississippi1 in —
- 6North Carolina1 in —
- 7New Jersey1 in —
- 8New York1 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. Tinisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tinisha around the world
Where Tinisha 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 & Wales1996–2012#5,876in 2012
- Canada1994–1997#2,443in 1997
- South Australia2004–2004#700in 2004
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.
Tinisha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tinisha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tinisha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.