Tana
Tana was given to 5 girls in 2025, #17,013 among girls’ names; 9,280 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,130 Americans named Tana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 40 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tana mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tana is “a female given name, Alternative form of Tanya.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tana?
#17,013 among girls’ names, 2025
Tana fell from #7,573 in 2015 to #17,013 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 3.1 per million.
241 babies in 1962, the peak
Tana peaked in 1962, when 241 girls were given it, #655 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,013 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,379 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,073 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,497 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,411 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,893 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,956 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,748 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,621 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,198 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,573 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,679 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,231 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,422 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,821 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,394 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,875 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,751 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,648 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,463 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,500 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,481 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,283 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,666 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,563 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 67 | #2,327 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,910 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 68 | #2,141 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 73 | #1,978 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 83 | #1,788 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 90 | #1,645 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 85 | #1,738 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 86 | #1,734 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 96 | #1,610 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 108 | #1,472 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 113 | #1,403 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 124 | #1,273 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 121 | #1,237 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 128 | #1,155 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 163 | #972 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 173 | #918 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 157 | #939 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 150 | #980 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 182 | #856 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 128 | #1,092 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 155 | #958 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 208 | #774 | 0.13 |
| 1978 | 140 | #990 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 148 | #942 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 173 | #806 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 158 | #847 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 164 | #822 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 150 | #860 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 174 | #789 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 206 | #732 | 0.12 |
| 1970 | 209 | #721 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 169 | #794 | 0.10 |
| 1968 | 175 | #753 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 205 | #675 | 0.12 |
| 1966 | 204 | #684 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 222 | #664 | 0.13 |
| 1964 | 206 | #723 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 211 | #702 | 0.11 |
| 1962 | 241 | #655 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 223 | #704 | 0.11 |
| 1960 | 207 | #710 | 0.10 |
| 1959 | 195 | #718 | 0.10 |
| 1958 | 163 | #786 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 160 | #800 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 147 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 140 | #818 | 0.07 |
| 1954 | 153 | #752 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 117 | #868 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 129 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 144 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1950 | 132 | #753 | 0.08 |
| 1949 | 119 | #798 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 137 | #722 | 0.08 |
| 1947 | 110 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 107 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 108 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 117 | #693 | 0.09 |
| 1943 | 124 | #685 | 0.09 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,586 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 18 | #2,014 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,562 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,119 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,809 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,760 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,822 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,351 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,533 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,993 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,393 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tana has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 94 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tana, and how old are they?
8,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 9,280 Americans ever recorded as Tana. The median Tana alive today is 53 years old; half are between 40 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 8,201 people named Tana (8,081 women and girls, 120 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,415 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 228 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,410 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,650 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,930 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 741 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 175 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Tana born?
The states with the most babies named Tana are Texas, California and Ohio, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 804 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 681 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 511 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Washington | 319 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Montana | 251 | not ranked | 7.0× |
| Illinois | 242 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 226 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 211 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Oregon | 210 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Oklahoma | 166 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Tana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tana is most over-represented in Montana: since 1924 it was given 7.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 170,198 babies since 1880, Tana is the third most given (5.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 192 babies (2.6%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tana and names like it
- Compare Tana and TanyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTana peaked in 1962.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tana since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Tana.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tana alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.