# Tania (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tania/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Taniya |
| US babies named this | 28,952 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 61 / 28,891 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 885, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 243 | 1,030 |
| 2012 | 237 | 1,064 |
| 2013 | 195 | 1,236 |
| 2014 | 192 | 1,260 |
| 2015 | 155 | 1,487 |
| 2016 | 153 | 1,495 |
| 2017 | 187 | 1,266 |
| 2018 | 160 | 1,404 |
| 2019 | 142 | 1,527 |
| 2020 | 131 | 1,607 |
| 2021 | 105 | 1,896 |
| 2022 | 117 | 1,774 |
| 2023 | 125 | 1,668 |
| 2024 | 103 | 1,940 |
| 2025 | 93 | 2,050 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | 6,966 |
| 1986 | 5 | 7,698 |
| 1987 | 5 | 8,003 |
| 1989 | 8 | 6,163 |
| 1990 | 10 | 5,326 |
| 1991 | 6 | 8,125 |
| 1993 | 11 | 5,316 |
| 1994 | 5 | 10,084 |
| 1995 | 6 | 8,760 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 23 | 1,327 |
| 2012 | 11 | 2,338 |
| 2013 | 16 | 1,774 |
| 2014 | 18 | 1,628 |
| 2015 | 12 | 2,195 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1,689 |
| 2017 | 13 | 2,090 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,977 |
| 2019 | 17 | 1,703 |
| 2020 | 17 | 1,687 |
| 2021 | 11 | 2,341 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,673 |
| 2023 | 13 | 2,063 |
| 2024 | 14 | 2,000 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2,440 |

## People named Tania

- Tânia Alves, Brazilian actress
- Tânia Burity, actor
- Tânia Maria Pereira Ribeiro, Brazilian association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.