Tenisha
Recorded 1968–2013 · United States
Tenisha was most popular in 1983, when 221 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,280 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,501 people named Tenisha.
Tenisha over time
How old is the name Tenisha?
Tenisha first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1968, which makes it about 57 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 44 of the 58 years since. It was last recorded in 2013.
How many people are named Tenisha?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,501 American births named Tenisha between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 3,392 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Tenisha in 2025?
Tenisha was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Tenisha getting more or less popular?
Tenisha is out of use. It averaged 5 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Tenisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Tenisha is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 3,501 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Tenisha?
Roughly 3,392 Americans named Tenisha are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 42 years old, and half are between 36 and 47. That is a narrow band: Tenisha arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Tenisha is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org