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

Tanisha as a non-Japanese name is properly rendered in Japanese using katakana タニシャ.

[3] 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.

Name data are from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States.

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.

[8][9][10] 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?"