Tanisha

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Tanisha: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Tanisha: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #282 in 2000, and it stood at #1,894 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#282highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#393
1997	#315
1998	#374
1999	#303
2000	#330
2001	#412
2002	#458
2003	#415
2004	#384
2005	#361
2006	#357
2007	#419
2008	#355
2009	#341
2010	#347
2011	#383
2012	#509
2013	#536
2014	#814
2015	#760
2016	#861
2017	#1105
2018	#1013
2019	#1439
2020	#1846
2021	#2201
2022	#2888
2023	#1863
2024	#1894

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2013: #536 among girls in England and Wales, #894 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #393 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2000–2011
Highest recorded position: #282 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2000 (recorded 2000–2011).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1894 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Tanisha appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,119 births with the name.

Tanisha across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Tanisha's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#393 (1996)	#303 (1999)	#1894 (2024)	29 of 29	2,119 (1996–2024)	132 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#536 (2000)	#461 (2005)	#894 (2013)	10 of 14	36 (2000–2013)	6 (2005)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#282 (2000)	#282 (2000)	#311 (2011)	6 of 12	24 (2000–2011)	5 (2011)

Tanisha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Tanisha in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	395	4 of 10	99
2000sbusiest	1,014	10 of 10	101
2010s	645	10 of 10	65
2020s	65	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 101 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2011 and 2012, when recorded births fell by 37, from 122 to 85.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Tanisha appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #282 in Northern Ireland in 2000.

Tanisha's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1894	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1863	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2888	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1846	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1439	21	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1013	35	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1105	31	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#861	43	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#760	51	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#814	47	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#536	78	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#509	85	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#383	122	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#347	132	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#341	130	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#355	125	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#419	98	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#357	120	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#361	110	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#384	99	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#415	86	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#458	68	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#412	75	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#330	103	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#303	114	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#374	86	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#315	112	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#393	83	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#311	5	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#366	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#318	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#293	4	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#282	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#624	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#461	6	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #282, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 132 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2000, and 4 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Tania · #4, 62y
Tanish · #1669, 20y
Tanishka · #1807, 19y
Tanitoluwa · #3148, 8y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aimie · #282, 26y
Atlanta · #282, 30y
Azaan · #282, 28y
Ella-Louise · #282, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Amy-Louise · #282, 20y
Atlanta · #282, 30y
Azaan · #282, 28y
Buddy · #282, 27y

Tanisha was ranked #282 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2000. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Tanisha and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Tanisha without appearing here.

Tanisha moved ahead of

Jordan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2888 and #2888 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1863 and #4056.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1863 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1894 and #3695.
Siobhán Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2888 and #2888 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1863 and #3598.
Tayla Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1863 and #1774 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1894 and #3318.

Moved ahead of Tanisha

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1846 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2201 and #1286.
Ann Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1846 and #1939 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2201 and #1351.
Bernadette Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2201 and #2341 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2888 and #2178.
Shania Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1863 and #2063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1894 and #1353.

Moved the opposite way to Tanisha

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tanisha went from #393 to #1894 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tanisha went from #393 to #1894 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tanisha went from #393 to #1894 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tanisha went from #393 to #1894 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Tanisha

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tanisha went from #393 to #1894 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tanisha went from #393 to #1894 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tanisha went from #393 to #1894 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Tanisha went from #393 to #1894 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #282 in Northern Ireland in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Tanisha

Tanisha at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Tanisha across 3 official records

Tanisha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Tanisha appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Tanisha moved ahead of

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Tanisha at a glance

Tanisha across 3 official records

Tanisha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Tanisha appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Tanisha

Tanisha and the names beside it

Tanisha moved ahead of

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