Tasha
Tasha is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 130th, in 1980.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19802,266 births
- Best rank
- #130in 1980
- Since 1947
- 35,515people given the name
The story in the numbers
35,515 girls have been named Tasha in the United States since 1947, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1980, with 2,266 births — 0.14% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 13 births in 2024, against 2,266 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1982, and the 1980s alone account for 46%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tasha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 15 | |
| 1950s | 112 | |
| 1960s | 1,302 | |
| 1970s | 10,971 | |
| 1980s | 16,256 | |
| 1990s | 5,603 | |
| 2000s | 937 | |
| 2010s | 243 | |
| 2020s | 76 |
In 1980, its biggest year
Tasha was the 130th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1980 were Jennifer, Amanda, Jessica, Melissa and Sarah. See all of 1980.
Names that rose and fell with Tasha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tiffaneypeak 1980
- Tiffneypeak 1980
- Cristinpeak 1981
- Nicholepeak 1985
- Sharhondapeak 1983
- Telishapeak 1980
- Tiffinypeak 1980
- Lashondrapeak 1980
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.