Tonisha
Recorded 1970–2009 · United States
Tonisha was most popular in 1993, when 138 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,117 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,224 people named Tonisha.
Tonisha over time
How old is the name Tonisha?
Tonisha first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1970, which makes it about 55 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 37 of the 56 years since. It was last recorded in 2009.
How many people are named Tonisha?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,224 American births named Tonisha 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 2,161 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Tonisha in 2025?
Tonisha 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 Tonisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Tonisha is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,224 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 Tonisha?
Roughly 2,161 Americans named Tonisha are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 38 years old, and half are between 33 and 45. That is a narrow band: Tonisha 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 Tonisha 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