Tanya

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: Arabic

Meaning

Tanya or Tania is the Slavic hypocoristic of Tatiana. It is commonly used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world.

From Wikipedia

Tanya first appears in the data in 1959 and has been recorded in 34 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1971 with 552 babies (rank #24 that year). It was not in the 2025 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Tanya

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Tanya yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

8,820
Total babies (all years)
34
Years in the data
552
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
195995#88
1960112#93
1961156#77
1962158#76
1963100#92
1964155#72
1965193#63
1966258#48
1967323#39
1968378#31
1969439#27
1970520#22
1971552#24
1972495#24
1973491#24
1974428#27
1975464#19
1976451#19
1977385#23
1978361#29
1979340#30
1980330#31
1981383#29
1982270#41
1983251#48
1984215#53
1985192#58
1986144#79
1987136#85
198841#103
20141#2,645
20151#2,703
20161#2,619
20171#2,578