Taniya

Where Taniya comes from

From Russian. See Tanya.
— Wiktionary's entry for Taniya
  • Russian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1969
    First appearance
    #6,617 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1997
    Taniya Bhatia born
    Indian woman cricketer
  3. 2006
    Peak, #665
    433 babies named Taniya — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,434.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Russian, variant of Tanya and Tania.
Namesakes
  • Taniya Bhatia · Indian woman cricketer, born 1997
  • Taniya Soki · Indian politician

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.