Tanisha (name)

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
PronunciationTanīṣā,
tuh-NEE-shuh,
ta-NEE-shah
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/nameSanskrit
MeaningAmbition (Sanskrit)
Born on Monday (Hausa, English)
Happiness (Arabic), Benevolent ruler (Urdu),
Child saint (Urdu)
Region of originSouth Asia

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]

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.[3]

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".[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 birthRankYear of birthRank
19988561984351
19977331984351
19965541983320
19955341982318
19944421981339
19934341980324
19923871979344
19913761978335
19903871977321
19894011976339
19883881975345
19873501974354
19863501973389
19853691972352

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 38 years old.[7]

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.[8][9][10]

Spellings

Common spellings for Tanisha:

Nicknames

Common nicknames for Tanisha/Tanesha:

  • T
  • Tani
  • TanTan
  • Tanu
  • Tan
  • Tana
  • Tansy
  • Tanini
  • Tanz
  • Tia
  • Tisha
  • Tasha
  • Nesh
  • Nisha
  • Neshy
  • Nesha
  • Neeshie
  • Teshe
  • Tashi
  • Tashee
  • Tati
  • Tans
  • Tanicakes
  • Tancakes
  • TabTab
  • TabiTab

People

Given name

Media

Music

Other

Pseudonym
  • Ta-Tanisha (born Shirley Cummings, in 1953) American character actress

Sports

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".[15] The Tannashah, Tánėshá or Tánísha (a title) was a Nabob of Golconda.[16]

Fictional characters

Filmography

Literature
  • Tanisha - A Shikaza woman also known as Kahutu, first appearance in the first edition Imaro (novel), written by Charles R. Saunders
  • Tanisha - (initial Key holder, resigned) The Council Wars an in-progress book series by John Ringo
gollark: Of course.
gollark: #1 then.
gollark: Well, I guess we carefully attain another GM
gollark: We have 4 rocks, right?
gollark: I take the rock, we share the money again, and I add the corpse to our corpse pile for sale.

See also
  • Nisha (disambiguation)
  • Tanish (name)
  • Tanisha (disambiguation)
  • Tanya (name)

References
  1. "Meaning of Tanisha". indiachildnames.com. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  2. The Strange Life of Tana Shah. Narendra Luther. August 1, 1995. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
  3. Takase Studios, LLC. "Tanisha in Japanese - Original Art and Japanese Tattoo Designs". stockkanji.com. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  4. LIFE. Time Inc. 1994. p. 55. ISSN 0024-3019. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  5. Rosenkrantz, Linda; Satran, Paula Redmond (August 16, 2001). Baby Names Now: From Classic to Cool--The Very Last Word on First Names. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0312267576.
  6. "Popular Baby Names". socialsecurity.gov. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  7. "girl-names/Tanisha". babynameshub.com. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  8. "The Politics of giving your child a black name". Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  9. "Unconscious racial bias still pervades". Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  10. "Module 7 Racial and Ethnic Stratification Part 3". Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  11. "Google Translate". translate.google.com. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  12. "Tanisha in Japanese - Kanji Zone". kanjizone.com. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  13. "Tanisha in Chinese Writing - EZChineseNames.com - Get Your Name Translate to Chinese". ezchinesenames.com. Archived from the original on July 28, 2014. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  14. "My Name in Arabic, Write my Name in Arabic, Write your Name in Arabic, Arabic names for girls — 500+ names in Arabic, all for free!". arabicmatters.com. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  15. "Narendra Luther Archives: The Strange Life of Tana Shah". narendralutherarchives.blogspot.com. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  16. Carnatic Chronology: The Hindu and Mahomedan Methods of Reckoning Time Explained; with Essays on the Systems, Symbols Used for Numerals, a New Titular Method of Memory, Historical Records, and Other Subjects. Charles Philip Brown. 1863. Retrieved August 14, 2014. Carnatic Chronology: The Hindu and Mahomedan Methods of Reckoning Time Explained; with Essays on the Systems, Symbols Used for Numerals, a New Titular Method of Memory, Historical Records, and Other Subjects.

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