# Tanya (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tanya/  
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 | Tana, Tanja, Taniya |
| US babies named this | 117,260 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 405 / 116,855 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,945, 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 | 223 | 1,109 |
| 2012 | 204 | 1,204 |
| 2013 | 149 | 1,494 |
| 2014 | 131 | 1,642 |
| 2015 | 106 | 1,918 |
| 2016 | 92 | 2,125 |
| 2017 | 91 | 2,127 |
| 2018 | 67 | 2,608 |
| 2019 | 79 | 2,303 |
| 2020 | 67 | 2,579 |
| 2021 | 43 | 3,608 |
| 2022 | 61 | 2,818 |
| 2023 | 49 | 3,322 |
| 2024 | 46 | 3,455 |
| 2025 | 40 | 3,767 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 11 | 3,789 |
| 1980 | 12 | 3,591 |
| 1981 | 13 | 3,389 |
| 1982 | 8 | 4,942 |
| 1983 | 11 | 3,847 |
| 1984 | 14 | 3,254 |
| 1985 | 11 | 4,021 |
| 1986 | 7 | 5,861 |
| 1987 | 10 | 4,543 |
| 1988 | 8 | 5,682 |
| 1989 | 5 | 9,084 |
| 1990 | 7 | 7,090 |
| 1991 | 6 | 8,126 |
| 1994 | 8 | 6,907 |
| 1996 | 5 | 10,367 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 55 | 702 |
| 2012 | 48 | 801 |
| 2013 | 22 | 1,433 |
| 2014 | 34 | 1,040 |
| 2015 | 25 | 1,324 |
| 2016 | 31 | 1,112 |
| 2017 | 16 | 1,817 |
| 2018 | 17 | 1,711 |
| 2019 | 14 | 1,940 |
| 2020 | 11 | 2,300 |
| 2021 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,673 |
| 2023 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2024 | 15 | 1,894 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,278 |

## 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.