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Tarsha

Tarsha is a girl's name that peaked in 1974, when it was the 630th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1996. About 2,200 Tarshas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 51.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Tarsha

By the numbers

Total US births
2,375
Estimated living today
2,200
Median age today
51
Peak year
1974
Best rank
630th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1961

How old the living Tarshas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,375 babies given the name since 1961, about 2,200 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1974 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Tarsha is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Tarsha is most concentrated in Mississippi (6.1×), South Carolina (5.3×), the District of Columbia (4.1×), Maryland (3.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1974

The most popular girls’ names the year Tarsha peaked:

All the names of 1974

Related names

Tarsha against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.