Meaning not yet researched.
Tanya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #46 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #46 in 1974; #3,767 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tanya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,767 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #46.
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Tanya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 girls in 2025. Peak: #46 in 1974 · most girls in one year: 5,997 (1974).
In 2025, 40 US girls were named Tanya, making it the 3,767th most common girls’ name of the year, down 312 places from #3,455 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 46 girls named Tanya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #46, reached in 1974. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,997. For comparison, it was #1,918 in 2015 and #427 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tanya in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 10 babies. In all, 117,260 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 48,044 babies named Tanya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 635 US girls were named Tanya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 92. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tatiana (35,269 babies since 1880), Tania (28,952 babies since 1880), Tanja (2,580 babies since 1880) and Taniya (5,101 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tani, Tanea and Tanyia 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 Arabic and Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tani (1,014), Tanea (745), Tanyia (525), Tatjana (424), Tannia (392), Taneya (373), Tanyah (321), Taunia (269), Thanya (261), Tannya (253), Tanny (187), Tanyiah (130), 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 Tanya 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 | 40 | #3,767 | — | — |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,455 | — | — |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,322 | — | — |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,818 | — | — |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,608 | — | — |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,579 | — | — |
| 2019 | 79 | #2,303 | — | — |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 2017 | 91 | #2,127 | — | — |
| 2016 | 92 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 2015 | 106 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 2014 | 131 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 2013 | 149 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 2012 | 204 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 2011 | 223 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 2010 | 247 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 2009 | 268 | #990 | — | — |
| 2008 | 333 | #847 | — | — |
| 2007 | 354 | #812 | — | — |
| 2006 | 370 | #750 | — | — |
| 2005 | 401 | #692 | — | — |
| 2004 | 430 | #635 | — | — |
| 2003 | 453 | #602 | — | — |
| 2002 | 463 | #570 | — | — |
| 2001 | 416 | #606 | — | — |
| 2000 | 455 | #571 | — | — |
| 1999 | 404 | #603 | — | — |
| 1998 | 400 | #602 | — | — |
| 1997 | 473 | #511 | — | — |
| 1996 | 571 | #445 | 5 | #10,367 |
| 1995 | 621 | #413 | — | — |
| 1994 | 707 | #368 | 8 | #6,907 |
| 1993 | 1,117 | #249 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,054 | #266 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,108 | #252 | 6 | #8,126 |
| 1990 | 1,118 | #253 | 7 | #7,090 |
| 1989 | 1,387 | #193 | 5 | #9,084 |
| 1988 | 1,505 | #186 | 8 | #5,682 |
| 1987 | 1,750 | #156 | 10 | #4,543 |
| 1986 | 1,766 | #160 | 7 | #5,861 |
| 1985 | 2,113 | #139 | 11 | #4,021 |
| 1984 | 2,111 | #140 | 14 | #3,254 |
| 1983 | 2,227 | #134 | 11 | #3,847 |
| 1982 | 2,600 | #114 | 8 | #4,942 |
| 1981 | 3,408 | #92 | 13 | #3,389 |
| 1980 | 3,436 | #88 | 12 | #3,591 |
| 1979 | 3,225 | #93 | 11 | #3,789 |
| 1978 | 3,576 | #82 | 10 | #3,819 |
| 1977 | 4,085 | #67 | 23 | #2,124 |
| 1976 | 4,819 | #61 | 22 | #2,167 |
| 1975 | 5,377 | #50 | 26 | #1,881 |
| 1974 | 5,997 | #46 | 41 | #1,348 |
| 1973 | 5,632 | #50 | 29 | #1,648 |
| 1972 | 5,402 | #54 | 21 | #2,015 |
| 1971 | 4,855 | #72 | 12 | #2,953 |
| 1970 | 4,862 | #76 | 19 | #2,117 |
| 1969 | 3,964 | #91 | 10 | #3,040 |
| 1968 | 3,403 | #106 | 9 | #3,082 |
| 1967 | 2,657 | #132 | 13 | #2,337 |
| 1966 | 2,170 | #160 | 9 | #2,961 |
| 1965 | 2,021 | #173 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,969 | #189 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,847 | #198 | 6 | #4,002 |
| 1962 | 1,809 | #200 | 6 | #3,996 |
| 1961 | 1,647 | #210 | 7 | #3,623 |
| 1960 | 1,540 | #217 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,461 | #219 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,246 | #242 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,203 | #247 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,006 | #271 | 6 | #3,895 |
| 1955 | 697 | #325 | — | — |
| 1954 | 607 | #349 | — | — |
| 1953 | 533 | #369 | — | — |
| 1952 | 423 | #410 | — | — |
| 1951 | 384 | #427 | — | — |
| 1950 | 354 | #427 | — | — |
| 1949 | 272 | #486 | — | — |
| 1948 | 284 | #476 | — | — |
| 1947 | 309 | #466 | — | — |
| 1946 | 294 | #455 | — | — |
| 1945 | 186 | #534 | — | — |
| 1944 | 196 | #517 | — | — |
| 1943 | 195 | #541 | — | — |
| 1942 | 151 | #610 | — | — |
| 1941 | 98 | #711 | — | — |
| 1940 | 70 | #858 | — | — |
| 1939 | 60 | #917 | — | — |
| 1938 | 45 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1937 | 47 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1936 | 73 | #794 | — | — |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1932 | 17 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,490 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,837 | — | — |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,247 | — | — |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,626 | — | — |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,126 | — | — |
| 1921 | 6 | #5,033 | — | — |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,425 | — | — |
| 1918 | 11 | #3,004 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,534 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,350 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,209 | — | — |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,415 | — | — |
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).