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Tenisha - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Tenisha

[ syll. te-nis-ha, ten-i-sha ] The girl name Tenisha is pronounced TahNih-SHah KEY. Tenisha's language of origin is African-Hausa and it is predominantly used in the English language. Tenisha is a variant spelling of the English and Hausa Tanisha.

Tenisha is an unusual baby girl name. Its usage peaked in 1983 with 0.012% of baby girls being given the name Tenisha. It was #741 in rank then. The baby name has experienced a steep drop in frequency since then, and is used only on a very modest scale today. Among all girl names in its family, Tenisha was nonetheless the most frequently used in 2008.

Baby names that sound like Tenisha include the English Tameika, the English Tameka, the English Tamica, the English and Japanese Tamika, the Japanese Tamiko, the English Tamisha, the name Tanaka, the English Tanesha, the English and Hausa Tanisha, the English Taunisha, the English Tawnesha, the English Temeka, the English Temika, the English Tenesha, the English Timeka, the English Timika, the English Tinisha, the Spanish Tomasa, the English Tomeka, and the English Tomika.

KEY: approx pronunciation for Tenisha: T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; SH as in "she (SH.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"


 
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