Tanaya
Tanaya was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,301 among girls’ names; 2,128 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,090 Americans named Tanaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 20 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tanaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tanaya?
#8,301 among girls’ names, 2025
Tanaya fell from #5,438 in 2015 to #8,301 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 8.1 per million.
103 babies in 2005, the peak
Tanaya peaked in 2005, when 103 girls were given it, #1,891 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,301 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,380 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,240 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,995 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,480 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,337 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,666 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,723 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,504 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,721 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,438 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 28 | #5,013 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,993 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,822 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,048 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,293 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,355 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 71 | #2,627 | 37.5 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,681 | 35.9 |
| 2006 | 96 | #2,063 | 50.5 |
| 2005 | 103 | #1,891 | 55.7 |
| 2004 | 92 | #2,015 | 50.1 |
| 2003 | 90 | #2,015 | 49.3 |
| 2002 | 65 | #2,460 | 36.2 |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,592 | 32.8 |
| 2000 | 76 | #2,136 | 41.8 |
| 1999 | 76 | #2,047 | 42.8 |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,182 | 37.4 |
| 1997 | 67 | #2,109 | 38.5 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,889 | 24.0 |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,674 | 26.2 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,156 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,100 | 21.0 |
| 1992 | 53 | #2,452 | 28.7 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,195 | 18.7 |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,365 | 27.9 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,464 | 16.3 |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,031 | 19.1 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,483 | 24.2 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,543 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,604 | 13.9 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,671 | 20.8 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,716 | 19.8 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,894 | 18.9 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,713 | 20.4 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,856 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,271 | 26.8 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,378 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,657 | 20.9 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,598 | 21.2 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,402 | 23.3 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,590 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,558 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,273 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,214 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,893 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tanaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tanaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tanaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tanaya, and how old are they?
2,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,128 Americans ever recorded as Tanaya. The median Tanaya alive today is 26 years old; half are between 20 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,743 people named Tanaya (1,743 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,032 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 228 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 577 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 220 |
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 Tanaya born?
The states with the most babies named Tanaya are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 177 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 115 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 66 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 62 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 38 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 29 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 28 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 25 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Tanaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tanaya is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 1.3 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 Tanaya 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 171,688 babies since 1880, Tanaya is the seventh most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 218 babies (6.0%), the fifth 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 Tanaya
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 Tanaya and names like it
- Compare Tanaya and TanyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTanaya peaked in 2005.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tanaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Tanaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tanaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.