Fewer than five US girls were named Tanna in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,363, reached in 1979. That year also had the most girls given the name: 91. For comparison, it was #7,577 in 2015 and #1,866 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tanna in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 17 babies. In all, 3,236 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 621 babies named Tanna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 50 US girls were named Tanna; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 10.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tana (9,280 babies since 1880), Taina (2,757 babies since 1880) and Tanaya (2,128 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tayanna, Tayonna and Taionna are summarised on this page.