Taneya
Taneya was last recorded in 2019, when 6 babies were given it; 373 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taneya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taneya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,376, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 2001, the peak
Taneya peaked in 2001, when 22 girls were given it, #5,347 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | #15,376 | 3.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,820 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,092 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,553 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,076 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,541 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,699 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,111 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,107 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,734 | 9.8 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 7 | #13,703 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 16 | #7,008 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,347 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,098 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,188 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 8 | #11,028 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,721 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,525 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,230 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,650 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,480 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,674 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,925 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,272 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,619 | 5.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,436 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,294 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,055 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,141 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,371 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,261 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,337 | 5.4 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,583 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,624 | 13.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taneya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taneya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taneya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taneya, and how old are they?
An estimated 365 Americans named Taneya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 20 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 330 people named Taneya (327 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 367 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Taneya?
Taneya is a less common spelling of Tanaya: SSA has recorded 373 Taneya and 2,128 Tanaya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 170,577 babies since 1880, Taneya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 218 babies recorded by SSA was a Taneya (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Taneya
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 Taneya and names like it
- Compare Taneya and TanayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTaneya peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taneya since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Taneya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taneya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.