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Tasheena vs Tasneem

American parents have registered 1,683 Tasneems since 1880, against 838 Tasheenas. Tasneem is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tasheena against Tasneem, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tasheena 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 52 years in which either name was published, Tasneem for 30 years and Tasheena for 22 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Tasheena Tasneem
Total US births 8381,683
Most in one year 6180
Babies in 2025 under 576
Estimated living today 8201,700
Median age today 3713
Peak year 19852018
Best rank 1,833rd girls2,275th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,368th
First recorded 19731974
Girls / boys 838 / 01,683 / 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 Tasheenas alive today are over 37; half the Tasneems are over 13. That is 24 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.

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