Tanja
Last seen for girls in 2007 at #13,924
- Peak · girls
- 1970 · 153 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,580since 1943
Tanja over time
Rank among girls' names. Tanja has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 |
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| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 |
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| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 |
| 1992 | #4,528 | 22 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #4,003 | 25 |
| 1989 | #4,358 | 21 |
| 1988 | #3,585 | 26 |
| 1987 | #3,743 | 23 |
| 1986 | #2,845 | 33 |
| 1985 | #2,939 | 31 |
| 1984 | #2,625 | 35 |
| 1983 | #2,156 | 45 |
| 1982 | #2,901 | 31 |
| 1981 | #2,529 | 37 |
| 1980 | #2,154 | 47 |
| 1979 | #1,814 | 59 |
| 1978 | #1,569 | 69 |
| 1977 | #2,002 | 48 |
| 1976 | #1,499 | 69 |
| 1975 | #1,447 | 71 |
| 1974 | #1,115 | 104 |
| 1973 | #1,185 | 91 |
| 1972 | #919 | 134 |
| 1971 | #997 | 126 |
| 1970 | #871 | 153 |
| 1969 | #951 | 126 |
| 1968 | #999 | 110 |
| 1967 | #973 | 110 |
| 1966 | #1,031 | 101 |
| 1965 | #1,129 | 88 |
| 1964 | #1,066 | 104 |
| 1963 | #1,139 | 92 |
| 1962 | #1,350 | 67 |
| 1961 | #1,217 | 82 |
| 1960 | #1,301 | 71 |
| 1959 | #1,741 | 40 |
| 1958 | #1,679 | 41 |
| 1957 | #1,869 | 34 |
| 1956 | #2,321 | 23 |
| 1955 | #2,635 | 18 |
| 1954 | #3,325 | 12 |
| 1953 | #2,921 | 14 |
| 1952 | #3,552 | 10 |
| 1951 | #3,482 | 10 |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 |
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| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 |
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| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tanja! It came in at #4,691, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1949, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Tanja is popular in 1986
No state had 5 or more girls named Tanja in 1986, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Tanja
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2007
- Biggest jump: 80 spots in 1970 (#951 → #871)
- Biggest drop: 266 spots in 1973 (#919 → #1,185)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 1970 at #871 (153 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1967–1972
- Highest: 1 in 11,353 girls born in 1972 were named Tanja (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 274,660 girls born in 2007 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #871 in 1970, was only 1 in 11,426 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.9% of all girls named Tanja (951) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 10 | #4,691 (1943) | #4,993 |
| 1950s | 210 | #1,679 (1958) | #2,749 |
| 1960s | 951 | #951 (1969) | #1,116 |
| 1970s | 924 | #871 (1970) | #1,342 |
| 1980s | 329 | #2,154 (1980) | #2,984 |
| 1990s | 126 | #4,003 (1990) | #7,941 |
| 2000s | 30 | #12,056 (2001) | #14,568 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tanja in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 51,986 of them was named Tanja, which outranked 77.8% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,779Tesha34
- #2,779Tinamarie34
- #2,779Xenia34
- #2,845Tanja33
- #2,845Adora33
- #2,845Aime33
- #2,845Aleece33
- #2,903Addison32
- #2,903Aerial32
- #2,903Allen32
Tied with 57 names at #2,845; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.