Tanisha Long — American comedian; MTV2's Guy Code. The name became closely associated with the 1970s-80s wave of distinctively African American girls' names alongside Lakeisha, Tameka, and Latoya; like those, it appears in landmark sociolinguistic studies of naming and identity in the post-Civil-Rights era. The name's Sanskrit interpretation ("ambition") has also led to its independent adoption in modern Hindu families across India, where Tanisha appears in the top-500 Indian girls' names of the 2010s.
Tanisha does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tanisha reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.