Tanya

Where Tanya comes from

Borrowed in the twentieth century from the Russian pet form Та́ня (Tánja) of Татья́на (Tatʹjána, “Tatiana”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Tanya
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Tanya through the years
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,265 among girls with 10 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1974
    Peak, #46
    5,997 babies named Tanya, the most in any year.
  3. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #114.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Tatiana (from Russian) and Tetyana (from Ukrainian).
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Tanya in Wikidata.

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.