Tanya
Tanya is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 45 births. Its best rank was 46th, in 1974.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 450.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19745,996 births
- Best rank
- #46in 1974
- Since 1914
- 116,812people given the name
The story in the numbers
116,812 girls have been named Tanya in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1974, with 5,996 births — 0.41% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 45 births in 2024, against 5,996 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 1970s alone account for 41%. It has spent 72 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 13 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tanya | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 48 | |
| 1920s | 84 | |
| 1930s | 383 | |
| 1940s | 2,056 | |
| 1950s | 7,914 | |
| 1960s | 23,026 | |
| 1970s | 47,829 | |
| 1980s | 22,303 | |
| 1990s | 7,573 | |
| 2000s | 3,943 | |
| 2010s | 1,388 | |
| 2020s | 265 |
In 1974, its biggest year
Tanya was the 46th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1974 were Jennifer, Amy, Michelle, Heather and Angela. See all of 1974.
Names that rose and fell with Tanya
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shonnapeak 1977
- Stacypeak 1971
- Kerriepeak 1971
- Tawnyapeak 1972
- Latanyapeak 1972
- Staciepeak 1971
- Toyapeak 1976
- Cristipeak 1973
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.