Name meaning & stats
Tanisha
Tanisha means “benevolent ruler”. 19,361 US babies since 1940, peak 1982.
What it means
“benevolent ruler”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1982
19,361 US babies were named Tanisha between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Tanisha (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 62% of the family
- Tanisha 62%
- Tanesha 17%
- Taneisha 7%
- Taneshia 4%
- Taniesha 2%
- Tanasha 2%
- Tanishia 2%
- Taneesha 2%
- Tanaisha 1%
- Tanysha 1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1982)