Tanya
Tanya reached its high-water mark in 1974 at number 46, and has been recorded 117,260 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,712th. About 108,000 Tanyas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 117,260
- Estimated living today
- 108,000
- Median age today
- 50
- Peak year
- 1974
- Best rank
- 46th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,712th
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 116,855 / 405
How old the living Tanyas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 117,260 babies given the name since 1914, about 108,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 2,300 of them are children and 9,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 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 the name comes from
Borrowed in the twentieth century from the pet form Та́ня of Татья́на (“Tatiana”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Tanyas
- Tanya Roberts (1949–2021)American actress
- Tanya Savicheva (1930–1944)Russian diarist
- Tanya Tucker (born 1958)American country singer
- Tanya Dangalakova (born 1964)swimmer
- Tanya Baramzina (1919–1944)Soviet WWII sniper and Heroine of the Soviet Union
- Tanya Dziahileva (born 1991)Belarusian model
- Tanya Huff (born 1957)Canadian fantasy author
- Tanya Reinhart (1943–2007)Israeli journalist and linguist
People named Tanya with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tanya is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tanya is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (2.0×), Hawaii (2.0×), Alaska (2.0×), New Mexico (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1974
The most popular girls’ names the year Tanya peaked:
Tanya elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland girls | Tanya | 1,991 | 84th |
| England and Wales girls | Tanya | 1,945 | 235th |
| France girls | Tanya | 1,755 | 595th |
| New Zealand girls | Tanya | 1,595 | 41st |
| Scotland girls | Tanya | 667 | 143rd |
| Italy girls | Tanya | 340 | — |
| Norway girls | Tanya | 271 | 314th |
| Belgium girls | Tanya | 87 | 743rd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Tanya | 29 | 212th |
| Poland girls | Tanya | 4 birth registrations | 711th |
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.
Tanya: rank by region
In 2013, Tanya was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Tanya | 442 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Tanya by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 555th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Tanya among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Tanya | 175 | 200 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Tanya lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 605 women called Tanya were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Segovia | Tanya | 14 | 0.178 | 504 |
| Soria | Tanya | 6 | 0.135 | 583 |
| Valladolid | Tanya | 22 | 0.081 | 776 |
| Burgos | Tanya | 13 | 0.072 | 910 |
| Huesca | Tanya | 6 | 0.053 | 1,071 |
| Cuenca | Tanya | 5 | 0.051 | 1,102 |
Listed in 32 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 20 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Tanya against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.