Tani
Tani was given to 7 girls in 2025, #13,057 among girls’ names; 1,014 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tani?
#13,057 among girls’ names, 2025
Tani entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,057 in 2025.
62 babies in 1963, the peak
Tani peaked in 1963, when 62 girls were given it, #1,427 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #13,057 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,500 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,432 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,377 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,875 | 2.9 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,001 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,041 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,554 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,918 | 2.7 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,992 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 7 | #14,363 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,035 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,416 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,351 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,804 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,554 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,341 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,950 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,526 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,600 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,516 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,264 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,461 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,376 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,515 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,258 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,470 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,295 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,548 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,619 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,349 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,171 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,828 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,218 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,983 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 19 | #4,034 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,925 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,910 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,163 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,573 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,317 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,347 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,889 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,054 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,194 | 12.0 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,444 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,291 | 17.7 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,164 | 18.8 |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,348 | 16.0 |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,849 | 22.1 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,944 | 20.1 |
| 1963 | 62 | #1,427 | 32.2 |
| 1962 | 42 | #1,778 | 21.4 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,998 | 17.3 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,145 | 14.8 |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,665 | 9.9 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,957 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,812 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,921 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,829 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,137 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,661 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,867 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,980 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,621 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,116 | 7.1 |
| 1946 | 12 | #3,010 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,169 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,516 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,295 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tani has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 71 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tani, and how old are they?
An estimated 909 Americans named Tani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 38 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,121 people named Tani (1,025 women and girls, 96 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 924 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Tani rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Tani born?
The states with the most babies named Tani are California, Oregon and Michigan, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oregon is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 132 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Oregon | 12 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Tani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tani is most over-represented in California: since 1942 it was given 1.2 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 Tani 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 168,502 babies since 1880, Tani is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 186 babies (3.8%), 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 Tani
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 Tani and names like it
- Compare Tani and TanyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTani peaked in 1963.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tani since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Tani.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tani alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.