Tanis
About 1,529 American babies have been named Tanis since 1926, most of them around 1948. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 1,400 Tanises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tanis boys named Tanis
Girls and boys called Tanis
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Tanis crossed from girls to boys in 1992, and has stayed there for 12 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 78% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 20 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,529
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 37
- Peak year
- 1948
- Best rank
- 1,499th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1926
- Girls / boys
- 994 / 535
How old the living Tanises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,529 babies given the name since 1926, about 1,400 are alive — 89 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Tanis is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1948
The most popular girls’ names the year Tanis peaked:
Tanis elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Tanis | 75 | 5,612th |
| England and Wales boys | Tanis | 18 | 2,020th |
| France girls | Tanis | 10 | 6,557th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Tanis against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.