Tanisha (name)

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

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.stockkanji.com/Tanisha_tah-nEE-shah_tani-sha|title=Tanisha in Japanese - Original Art and Japanese Tattoo Designs|author=Takase Studios, LLC|publisher=stockkanji.com|access-date=December 13, 2014}}

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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".{{cite book|title=LIFE|year=1994|publisher=Time Inc|issn=0024-3019|url=https://archive.org/details/life0000geor|url-access=registration|page=55|isbn=9780886826024|access-date=December 13, 2014}}

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.{{cite book|last=Rosenkrantz|first=Linda|title=Baby Names Now: From Classic to Cool--The Very Last Word on First Names|date=August 16, 2001|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|isbn=0312267576|url=https://archive.org/details/babynamesnow00rose|author2=Satran, Paula Redmond|url-access=registration}}

US Popularity by Rank top 1000 names{{cite web|url=http://www.socialsecurity.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi|title=Popular Baby Names|publisher=socialsecurity.gov|access-date=December 13, 2014}}

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 Middle age, part of the early Millennial generation.{{cite web|url=http://www.babynameshub.com/girl-names/Tanisha.html|title=girl-names/Tanisha|publisher=babynameshub.com|access-date=December 13, 2014}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://politic365.com/2011/12/30/the-politics-of-giving-your-child-a-black-name|title=The Politics of giving your child a black name|access-date=July 11, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://manitoumessenger.com/opinions/2015/03/06/unconscious-racial-bias-still-pervades|title=Unconscious racial bias still pervades|date=6 March 2015|access-date=July 11, 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://uncgsoc101.wordpress.com/module-7-racial-and-ethnic-stratification/part-3|title=Module 7 Racial and Ethnic Stratification Part 3|date=16 December 2010|access-date=July 11, 2015}}

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.{{Cite journal|last1=Bertrand|first1=Marianne|last2=Mullainathan|first2=Sendhil|date=July 2003|title=Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination|url=http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873.pdf|language=en|location=Cambridge, MA|pages=w9873|doi=10.3386/w9873}}

Common spellings for Tanisha:

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• Tanishaa Mukerji (born 1978), Bollywood actress
• Tanisha Thomas (born 1985), Reality TV Star, Host
• Tanisha Mariko Harper (born 1981), model, actress and television host
• Tanisha Tamara Drummond Johnson (born c. 1976), Panamanian model and beauty pageant contestant winner of the Señorita Panamá 1997
• Tanisha Lynn Eanes (born 1978 in Houston, Texas), American actress
• Tanisha Scott (born in Toronto, Canada), three-time MTV VMA-nominated choreographer
• Tanisha Nicole Brito (born 1980), beauty queen who has competed at both Miss America and Miss USA
• Tanisha Malone, Winner of the 2006 edition of Mo'Nique's Fat Chance a reality TV miniseries
• Tanisha Yarndriciaes Delores Neal, uses the pseudonym Toni Neal (born 1976), broadcaster
• Tanisha Belnap, contestant on So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. season 11) an American dance competition show
• Tanisha contestant on Big Brother (Switzerland) a reality game show franchise
• Tanisha Vernon (born 1987), beauty queen and winner of Miss Belize Universe 2007 pageant

• Tanisha Michele Morgan, member of the female rap duo group BWP (Bytches With Problems)

• Tanishia Covington (born 1992), convicted felon "2017 Chicago torture incident"

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

• Tanisha Lovely Wright (born 1983), American women’s basketball player

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".{{cite web|url=http://narendralutherarchives.blogspot.com/2006/12/strange-life-of-tana-shah.html|title=Narendra Luther Archives: The Strange Life of Tana Shah|date=August 1995|publisher=narendralutherarchives.blogspot.com|access-date=December 13, 2014}} The Tannashah, Tánėshá or Tánísha (a title) was a Nabob of Golconda.{{cite book|title=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|publisher= Charles Philip Brown|date= 1863|url=https://archive.org/details/carnaticchronol01browgoog|quote=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.|access-date=August 14, 2014}}

• Tanisha, the emperor of Golconda - role played by Nassar in the 2006 Telugu Devotional Movie Sri Ramadasu directed by K. Raghavendra Rao.
• Tanisha, role played by Tanusree Chakraborty in the 2012 Bengali drama film Bedroom directed by Mainak Bhaumik.
• Private Tanisha Robinson, role played by Michelle Buteau - Enlisted (TV series).
• Tanisha, role played by Preeti Puri - Mamta (TV series).

• 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.

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

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