Tanisha (name)

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Tanisha
Pronunciation Tanīṣā,
tuh-NEE-shuh,
ta-NEE-shah
Gender Female
Origin
Word/name Sanskrit
Meaning Ambition (Sanskrit)
Born on Monday (Hausa, English)
Happiness (Arabic)
Region of origin South Asia

Tanisha, meaning ambition in Sanskrit is a feminine given name. Tanisha \t(a)-ni-sha\ is pronounced Tanīṣā. Tanisha is the feminine equivalent of the name Tanish and is primarily a first name. Persons with the name Tanisha 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 meaning happiness in Arabic.[2]

Tanisha is also a variant transcription of the name Tansy (English). Can also be a combination of Ta- with A'isha.

Tanisha meaning child saint is spelled `Tana Shah' in Urdu or as Tani Shah, meaning "benevolent ruler".[3]

Popularity

Tanisha also appears in the following countries/origins/languages: African, English, Arabic, Japanese & South Asian

Japan

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.[4]

United States

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".[5]

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.[6]


US Popularity by Rank top 1000 names[7]

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 people were given this name in 1982, when 756 people in the U.S. were given the name Tanisha. Those people are now 42 years old.[8]

Prejudice

In the United States the name Tanisha is considered a stereotypical African American Name or an invented name. The name Tanisha has been used as an example of a stereotypical African American name in many articles addressing Institutional racism and unconscious racial bias that African Americans face when seeking employment, housing, bank loans and credit cards.[9] [10][11]

Spellings

Common alternative spellings for Tanisha in English:Tanishia, Tenisha, Tenishia, Tanesha, Taneshia, Tinisha, Tinesha, Tanysha, Tenesha, Tenisha, Tynisha, Taneisha and Taneesha.

Nicknames

Common nicknames for Tanisha:

  • T
  • Tani
  • Nisha
  • Tani
  • TanTan
  • Tanu
  • Tan
  • Tansy
  • Tanini
  • Tanz

People

Given name


Title

Tanisha is a popularly declared title usually bestowed by the people.

  • Abul Hasan Qutb Shah nicknamed as 'Tana Shah' meaning child saint also known as Abul Hasan Tana Shah or Tani Shah meaning "benevolent ruler".[17] The Tannashah, Tánėshá or Tánísha (a title) was a Nabob of Golconda.[18]

Pseudonym

Fictional characters

Filmography

Literature

See also

References

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