| Tanisha | |
| Pronunciation: | Tanīṣā, tuh-NEE-shuh, ta-NEE-shah |
| Gender: | Female |
| Meaning: | Ambition (Sanskrit) Born on Monday (Hausa, English) Happiness (Arabic), Benevolent ruler (Urdu), Child saint (Urdu) |
| Region: | South Asia |
| Origin: | Sanskrit |
Tanisha is a feminine given name in many cultures.
In the Sanskrit language, Tanisha is the feminine equivalent of the name Tanish and persons with the name are commonly Hindu by religion or of the Indo-Aryan peoples.[1]
Tanisha is a Hausa variant transcription of the name Tani (Hausa and English) and means born on a Monday in Hausa.
Tanisha is also a variant transcription of the name Tansy (English). It can also be a combination of Ta- with Aisha.
Tanisha meaning child saint is spelled `Tana Shah' in Urdu or as Tani Shah, meaning "benevolent ruler".[2]
The name Tanisha appears in Swahili, English, Arabic, Japanese & Urdu.
The name Tanisha when pronounced tah-nEE-shah; in Japanese is タニーシャ with the romaji tani-sha.Tanisha as a non-Japanese name is properly rendered in Japanese using katakana タニシャ. Tanisha rendered in hiragana generally is considered to be more feminine. Tanisha in hiragana is たにいしゃ and has the romaji taniisha. Notice that the hiragana rendering differs from the katakana due to the fact that katakana has fairly recently evolved to better render non-Japanese sounds into Japanese. The katakana and hiragana only render the syllable sounds and has no meaning in Japanese.[3]
In the United States, it is a predominantly African-American name first popularized in the 1960s by the actress Ta-Tanisha, who appeared on the television program Room 222. Ta-Tanisha loosely translated in Swahili means "Puzzling One".[4]
The American English pronunciation of Tanisha \t(a)-ni-sha\ is ta-NEE-shah or tuh-NEE-shuh. By the 1970s and 1980s, it had become common within the African American culture to invent new names, although many of the invented names took elements from popular existing names. Prefixes such as La/Le, Da/De, Ra/Re, or Ja/Je are common, as well as inventive spellings for the name Tanisha.[5]
US Popularity by Rank top 1000 names[6]
| Year of birth | Rank | Year of birth | Rank | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 856 | 1984 | 351 | ||
| 1997 | 733 | 1984 | 351 | ||
| 1996 | 554 | 1983 | 320 | ||
| 1995 | 534 | 1982 | 318 | ||
| 1994 | 442 | 1981 | 339 | ||
| 1993 | 434 | 1980 | 324 | ||
| 1992 | 387 | 1979 | 344 | ||
| 1991 | 376 | 1978 | 335 | ||
| 1990 | 387 | 1977 | 321 | ||
| 1989 | 401 | 1976 | 339 | ||
| 1988 | 388 | 1975 | 345 | ||
| 1987 | 350 | 1974 | 354 | ||
| 1986 | 350 | 1973 | 389 | ||
| 1985 | 369 | 1972 | 352 |
Note: Rank 1 is the most popular, rank 2 is the next most popular, and so forth. Data are not shown for some of the years specified because the name Tanisha was not in the top 1000 names for those years. Name data are from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States.
Records indicate that 17,012 girls in the United States have been named Tanisha since 1880. The greatest number of infants were given this name in 1982; that year, 756 infants in the U.S. were named Tanisha. This cohort is now years old, part of the early Millennial generation.[7]
In the United States, the name Tanisha is primarily known as an African-American name. The name Tanisha has been used as an example of a stereotypical African-American name that elicits racial bias, in articles addressing institutional racism that Black Americans face when seeking employment, housing, bank loans and credit cards.[8] [9] [10]
The National Bureau of Economic Research in Massachusetts released the results of a field experiment on Labour discrimination titled "ARE EMILY AND GREG MORE EMPLOYABLE THAN LAKISHA AND JAMAL?" by Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan. During the field experiment, job applicants in Massachusetts with the name Tanisha was called back 6.3%; resumes with a more White-sounding name have a 10.08% call back rate.[11]
Common spellings for Tanisha:
| Country | Language | Spelling | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanishia | |||
| Tenishia | |||
| Tanesha | |||
| Taneshia | |||
| Tinisha | |||
| Tanysha | |||
| Tenesha | |||
| Tenisha | |||
| Tynisha | |||
| Taneisha | |||
| Taneesha | |||
| Tinesha |
| Country | Language | Spelling | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | तनीषा | [12] | |
| Japan | 多仁志矢 | [13] | |
| Japan | Katakana | タニシャ | |
| Japan | Japanese | タニーシャ | |
| Japan | Hiragana | たにしゃ | |
| China | Chinese | 覃妮莎 | [14] |
| Arabic | تـانيـشــا | [15] | |
| Bulgaria | Bulgarian | Таниша | |
| Israel | Hebrew | טנישה | |
| Java | Javanese | Sanjana | |
| India | Kannada | ತನೀಶಾ |
| Country | Language | Spelling | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Korea | Korean | 타니사 | |
| Serbia | Serbian Cyrillic | Танисха | |
| Sri Lanka | Sinhala | ටනිශා | |
| India | Tamil | தனிஷா | |
| India | Telugu | తనీషా | |
| Europe | Yiddish | טאַנישאַ | |
Tanisha is a popularly declared title usually bestowed by the people.
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