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Tanisha (name)

Tanisha is a feminine given name in many cultures.

Tanisha
Canadian choreographer Tanisha Scott, best known for collaborating with Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Sean Paul and Beyoncé.
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

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]

Popularity

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The name Tanisha appears in Swahili, English, Arabic, Japanese & Urdu.

Japan

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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]

 
American basketball coach Tanisha Wright, part of the Minnesota Lynx in 2018.

United States

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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 42 years old, part of the early Millennial generation.[7]

Prejudice

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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]

Spellings

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Common spellings for Tanisha:

Country Language Spelling Source
United States English
Tanishia
Tenishia
Tanesha
Taneshia
Tinisha
Tanysha
Tenesha
Tenisha
Tynisha
Taneisha
Taneesha
Tinesha
Country Language Spelling Source
India Hindi तनीषा [12]
Japan Kanji 多仁志矢 [13]
Japan Katakana タニシャ [13]
Japan Japanese タニーシャ
Japan Hiragana たにしゃ [13]
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

People

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Given name

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Media

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Actress Tanishaa Mukerji in 2015

Music

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Other

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Pseudonym

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Sports

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Title

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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".[16] The Tannashah, Tánėshá or Tánísha (a title) was a Nabob of Golconda.[17]

Fictional characters

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Filmography

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Literature

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  • 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.

See also

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References

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  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. ISBN 9780886826024. 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". 6 March 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  10. ^ "Module 7 Racial and Ethnic Stratification Part 3". 16 December 2010. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  11. ^ Bertrand, Marianne; Mullainathan, Sendhil (July 2003). "Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination" (PDF). Cambridge, MA: w9873. doi:10.3386/w9873. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. ^ "Google Translate". Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  13. ^ a b c "Tanisha in Japanese - Kanji Zone". kanjizone.com. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  14. ^ "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.
  15. ^ "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.
  16. ^ "Narendra Luther Archives: The Strange Life of Tana Shah". narendralutherarchives.blogspot.com. August 1995. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  17. ^ 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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