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Quanisha

Gender
Girl
Say it
kwuh-NEE-shuh
Origin
Modern

Quanisha is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Quanisha mean?

Modern: blend of Quan- and the -isha ending seen in Tanisha

Combines the prefix Quan- with the -isha ending seen in Tanisha, Keisha and Latisha.

Is Quanisha a girl's or a boy's name?

Quanisha is a girls' name.

How popular is Quanisha in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1995, with 160 girls. It first appears in the records in 1976.

Half of all the girls named Quanisha in the US since 1880 were born between 1989 and 1996, the years shaded on the chart below.

1976Busiest: 160 in 19952009
Quanisha in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20095#17,288
20085#17,498
20075#17,630
20067#13,601
20058#11,828
20049#10,684
200316#6,880
200212#8,274
200115#6,951
200037#3,522
199929#3,966
199852#2,611
199773#1,961
1996113#1,444
1995160#1,104
1994137#1,248
1993112#1,436
199298#1,572
1991109#1,449
1990101#1,519
198973#1,814
198850#2,246
198740#2,529
198634#2,778
198550#2,099
198437#2,514
198334#2,594
198221#3,779
198128#3,066
198018#4,147
197914#4,841
197813#4,931
197712#5,212
19768#6,609

Names like Quanisha

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Quanisha: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/quanisha, updated 20 October 2026.