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Tasha vs Tasneem

American parents have registered 35,634 Tashas since 1880, against 1,683 Tasneems. But in 2025 it was Tasneem that was commoner, 76 babies to 14.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tasha against Tasneem, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tasha Tasneem

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 76 years in which either name was published, Tasha for 60 years and Tasneem for 16 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tasha Tasneem
Total US births 35,6341,683
Most in one year 2,27780
Babies in 2025 1476
Estimated living today 34,0001,700
Median age today 4313
Peak year 19802018
Best rank 130th girls2,275th girls
Rank in 2025 7,491st2,368th
First recorded 19471974
Girls / boys 35,528 / 1061,683 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tashas alive today are over 43; half the Tasneems are over 13. That is 30 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tasha Tasneem
England and Wales 352937
France 80205
Belgium 3443
Scotland 213

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tasha and Tasneem.