Taneya — girls' name
373 babies named Taneya in U.S. Social Security records since 1975, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Taneya was born in this single decade.
22 babies were named Taneya in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Taneya
The Social Security Administration has registered 373 babies named Taneya between 1975 and 2019, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Taneya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 22 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Taneya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 153 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Taneya shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Taneya in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Taneya in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 373 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Taneya at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Taneya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1975
- Peak year (2001)
- 22
- Annual births at peak — across 45 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
373 total births across 45 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 22 births in a single year.
Taneya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 153 births that decade — 41% of Taneya's all-time total
Taneya decade highlights
- Peak decade 153 births
- Runner-up 100 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Taneya's strongest decade
153 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Taneya by state
Where Taneya concentrates geographically — total births since 1975
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 1.3% |
5 of 373 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1975–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.