Tangee — girls' name
358 babies named Tangee in U.S. Social Security records since 1956, with the highest year being 1976. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
43% of everyone ever named Tangee was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Tangee in 1976 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tangee
The Social Security Administration has registered 358 babies named Tangee between 1956 and 1994, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tangee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1976, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tangee performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 154 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tangee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tangee in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tangee 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 358 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.
Tangee at a glance
Last recorded 1994Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tangee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1994–1956
- Peak year (1976)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 39 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1994.
358 total births across 39 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1976 with 25 births in a single year.
Tangee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 154 births that decade — 43% of Tangee's all-time total
Tangee decade highlights
- Peak decade 154 births
- Runner-up 147 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Tangee's strongest decade
154 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 43% of all-time use.
Tangee by state
Where Tangee concentrates geographically — total births since 1956
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Georgia | | 5 | 1.4% |
5 of 358 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Georgia 1.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Georgia accounts for 1.4% 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, 1956–1994 (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.