Tanda
Tanda was last recorded in 1992, when 6 babies were given it; 462 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tanda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tanda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,172, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1962, the peak
Tanda peaked in 1962, when 23 girls were given it, #2,594 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 6 | #13,172 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,182 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,268 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,322 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,269 | 3.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,630 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,545 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,348 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,138 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,120 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 10 | #6,758 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,514 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,821 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,525 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,909 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,130 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,936 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 16 | #4,017 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,344 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,067 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,288 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,698 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,162 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,198 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,718 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,819 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,245 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,602 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,776 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,594 | 11.7 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,209 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,416 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,240 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,905 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,015 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,708 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,347 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,473 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,660 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,771 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,694 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,934 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,195 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,184 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 5 | #6,034 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,909 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tanda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tanda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tanda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tanda, and how old are they?
An estimated 405 Americans named Tanda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 48 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 429 people named Tanda (425 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 422 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,943 babies since 1880, Tanda is the third most given (16% 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 Tanda
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 Tanda and names like it
- Compare Tanda and TandyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTanda peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tanda since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Tanda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tanda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.