Meaning not yet researched.
Tana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #655 in 1962.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #655 in 1962; #17,017 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#17,017 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1962, at #655.
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Tana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #655 in 1962 · most girls in one year: 241 (1962).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Tana, making it the 17,017th most common girls’ name of the year, down 8,633 places from #8,384 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 13 girls named Tana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #655, reached in 1962. That year also had the most girls given the name: 241. For comparison, it was #7,576 in 2015 and #754 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tana in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 7 babies. In all, 9,280 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 2,063 babies named Tana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 120 US girls were named Tana; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tanna (3,236 babies since 1880), Taina (2,757 babies since 1880) and Tanaya (2,128 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tanay, Tayna and Tayana are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Sakizaya. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tanay (904), Tayna (874), Tayana (817), Tanae (675), Tauna (647), Tannah (269), Tayona (154), Tanai (139), Taiana (86), Tanaia (80), Thana (68), Tahina (53), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,017 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,384 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,078 | — | — |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,502 | — | — |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,416 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,897 | — | — |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,960 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,753 | — | — |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,625 | — | — |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,201 | — | — |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,576 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,681 | — | — |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,234 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,426 | — | — |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,824 | — | — |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,396 | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,877 | — | — |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,752 | — | — |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,649 | — | — |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,464 | — | — |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,504 | — | — |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,485 | — | — |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,287 | — | — |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,669 | — | — |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,567 | — | — |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1998 | 68 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 1997 | 73 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 1996 | 83 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1994 | 85 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1993 | 86 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 1992 | 96 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 1991 | 108 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1990 | 113 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 1989 | 124 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1988 | 121 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 1987 | 128 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1986 | 163 | #972 | — | — |
| 1985 | 173 | #918 | — | — |
| 1984 | 157 | #939 | — | — |
| 1983 | 150 | #980 | — | — |
| 1982 | 182 | #856 | — | — |
| 1981 | 128 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1980 | 155 | #958 | — | — |
| 1979 | 208 | #774 | — | — |
| 1978 | 140 | #990 | — | — |
| 1977 | 148 | #942 | — | — |
| 1976 | 173 | #806 | — | — |
| 1975 | 158 | #847 | 6 | #5,384 |
| 1974 | 164 | #822 | — | — |
| 1973 | 150 | #860 | — | — |
| 1972 | 174 | #789 | — | — |
| 1971 | 206 | #732 | — | — |
| 1970 | 209 | #721 | — | — |
| 1969 | 169 | #794 | — | — |
| 1968 | 175 | #753 | — | — |
| 1967 | 205 | #675 | — | — |
| 1966 | 204 | #684 | — | — |
| 1965 | 222 | #664 | — | — |
| 1964 | 206 | #723 | — | — |
| 1963 | 211 | #702 | — | — |
| 1962 | 241 | #655 | — | — |
| 1961 | 223 | #704 | — | — |
| 1960 | 207 | #710 | — | — |
| 1959 | 195 | #718 | — | — |
| 1958 | 163 | #787 | — | — |
| 1957 | 160 | #801 | — | — |
| 1956 | 147 | #820 | — | — |
| 1955 | 140 | #819 | — | — |
| 1954 | 153 | #753 | — | — |
| 1953 | 117 | #869 | — | — |
| 1952 | 129 | #798 | — | — |
| 1951 | 144 | #727 | — | — |
| 1950 | 132 | #754 | — | — |
| 1949 | 119 | #799 | — | — |
| 1948 | 137 | #723 | — | — |
| 1947 | 110 | #837 | — | — |
| 1946 | 107 | #801 | — | — |
| 1945 | 108 | #719 | — | — |
| 1944 | 117 | #693 | — | — |
| 1943 | 124 | #685 | — | — |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,587 | — | — |
| 1941 | 18 | #2,014 | — | — |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,563 | — | — |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,121 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,811 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,762 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,824 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,353 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,535 | — | — |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,994 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,395 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).