Tanasia
Tanasia was given to 5 girls in 2025, #17,014 among girls’ names; 1,227 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Tanasia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 20 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tanasia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tanasia?
#17,014 among girls’ names, 2025
Tanasia rose from #18,838 in 2015 to #17,014 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.1 per million.
90 babies in 2005, the peak
Tanasia peaked in 2005, when 90 girls were given it, #2,085 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,014 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,360 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,065 | 3.7 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,186 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,838 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,442 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,556 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,176 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,192 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,395 | 14.6 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 29 | #5,075 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,371 | 26.4 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,747 | 34.8 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,130 | 28.4 |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,085 | 48.7 |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,645 | 34.3 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,877 | 29.6 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,969 | 27.8 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,626 | 32.2 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,895 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,495 | 32.7 |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,562 | 30.6 |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,474 | 30.4 |
| 1996 | 57 | #2,336 | 32.5 |
| 1995 | 64 | #2,115 | 36.4 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,362 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,373 | 29.8 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,268 | 32.0 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,146 | 19.2 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,100 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,257 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,618 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,679 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,750 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,291 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,985 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,278 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tanasia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tanasia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tanasia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tanasia, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,227 Americans ever recorded as Tanasia. The median Tanasia alive today is 25 years old; half are between 20 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 948 people named Tanasia (945 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,198 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 362 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 789 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 54 |
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 Tanasia born?
The states with the most babies named Tanasia are New York, New Jersey and North Carolina, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 193 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| New Jersey | 96 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| North Carolina | 77 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| South Carolina | 46 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Georgia | 39 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 30 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Tanasia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tanasia is most over-represented in New York: since 1978 it was given 2.4 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 Tanasia 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 2,297 babies since 1880, Tanasia is the most given (53% of them).
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 Tanasia
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 Tanasia and names like it
- Compare Tanasia and TanessaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTanasia peaked in 2005.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tanasia since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Tanasia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tanasia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.