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Tanisha

As a girl's name, Tanisha is understood to mean "Modern coinage". It had its heyday in the 1980s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 6 of them.

EtymologyModern coinage
EtymologyPossibly Hausa "born on Monday" or elaboration of Tania
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
0
1950s
0
1960s
44
1970s
5,635
1980s
6,826
1990s
4,771
2000s
1,365
2010s
516
Peaked in the 1980s · 19,157 total U.S. births since 1900