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Quanisha

About 1,535 American babies have been named Quanisha since 1976, most of them around 1995. It has not appeared in the national data since 2009. About 1,500 Quanishas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Quanisha

By the numbers

Total US births
1,535
Estimated living today
1,500
Median age today
32
Peak year
1995
Best rank
1,107th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1976

How old the living Quanishas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,535 babies given the name since 1976, about 1,500 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Quanisha is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Quanisha is most concentrated in Florida (5.5×), South Carolina (4.5×), North Carolina (3.3×), Georgia (3.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1995

The most popular girls’ names the year Quanisha peaked:

All the names of 1995

Related names

Quanisha against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.