Tanja

Where Tanja comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Tanja.

  • Vowel-ended
Tanja through the years
  1. 1943
    First appearance
    #4,691 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Peak, #871
    153 babies named Tanja, the most in any year.
  3. 1971
    Tanja Fajon born
    Slovenian politician
  4. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,447.
  5. 1980
    Tanja Poutiainen born
    Finnish alpine skier
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Tanya
Namesakes
  • Tanja Poutiainen · Finnish alpine skier, born 1980
  • Tanja Fajon · Slovenian politician, born 1971
  • Tanja Ribič · Slovene actress and singer, born 1968
  • Tanja Frieden · snowboarder, born 1976
  • Tanja Stupar-Trifunović · author from Bosnia and Herzegovina, born 1977

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.