Tania
Tania was given to 93 girls in 2025, #2,050 among girls’ names; 28,952 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 27,600 Americans named Tania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 24 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tania mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tania is “a diminutive of the female given names Tatiana and Tetyana.”
From Russian.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tania?
#2,050 among girls’ names, 2025
Tania fell from #1,487 in 2015 to #2,050 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 86.8 to 57.9 per million.
857 babies in 1993, the peak
Tania peaked in 1993, when 857 babies were given it (846 girls, #316 among girls’ names). The 93 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 93 | #2,050 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 103 | #1,940 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 125 | #1,668 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 117 | #1,774 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 105 | #1,896 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 131 | #1,607 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 142 | #1,527 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 160 | #1,404 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 187 | #1,266 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 153 | #1,495 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 155 | #1,487 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 192 | #1,260 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 195 | #1,236 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 237 | #1,064 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 243 | #1,030 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 300 | #885 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 402 | #723 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 504 | #608 | 0.27 |
| 2007 | 609 | #518 | 0.32 |
| 2006 | 718 | #444 | 0.38 |
| 2005 | 645 | #477 | 0.35 |
| 2004 | 636 | #466 | 0.35 |
| 2003 | 716 | #419 | 0.39 |
| 2002 | 702 | #412 | 0.39 |
| 2001 | 642 | #432 | 0.36 |
| 2000 | 605 | #460 | 0.33 |
| 1999 | 578 | #460 | 0.33 |
| 1998 | 582 | #444 | 0.33 |
| 1997 | 524 | #479 | 0.30 |
| 1996 | 600 | #426 | 0.34 |
| 1995 | 542 | #466 | 0.31 |
| 1994 | 697 | #373 | 0.39 |
| 1993 | 846 | #316 | 0.47 |
| 1992 | 674 | #383 | 0.37 |
| 1991 | 579 | #441 | 0.31 |
| 1990 | 498 | #488 | 0.26 |
| 1989 | 426 | #538 | 0.23 |
| 1988 | 421 | #525 | 0.24 |
| 1987 | 418 | #509 | 0.24 |
| 1986 | 410 | #508 | 0.24 |
| 1985 | 400 | #506 | 0.23 |
| 1984 | 396 | #500 | 0.24 |
| 1983 | 392 | #497 | 0.23 |
| 1982 | 400 | #506 | 0.24 |
| 1981 | 484 | #443 | 0.29 |
| 1980 | 502 | #432 | 0.30 |
| 1979 | 567 | #388 | 0.35 |
| 1978 | 515 | #400 | 0.34 |
| 1977 | 615 | #358 | 0.40 |
| 1976 | 732 | #312 | 0.50 |
| 1975 | 699 | #325 | 0.48 |
| 1974 | 674 | #330 | 0.46 |
| 1973 | 522 | #391 | 0.36 |
| 1972 | 568 | #380 | 0.37 |
| 1971 | 529 | #405 | 0.32 |
| 1970 | 511 | #431 | 0.29 |
| 1969 | 503 | #431 | 0.30 |
| 1968 | 450 | #454 | 0.27 |
| 1967 | 376 | #491 | 0.23 |
| 1966 | 314 | #533 | 0.19 |
| 1965 | 263 | #590 | 0.15 |
| 1964 | 214 | #710 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 223 | #673 | 0.12 |
| 1962 | 219 | #696 | 0.11 |
| 1961 | 172 | #798 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 130 | #937 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 106 | #1,034 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 68 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 75 | #1,224 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 55 | #1,431 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 54 | #1,368 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 48 | #1,460 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 45 | #1,468 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,482 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,607 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 46 | #1,361 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,691 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 42 | #1,436 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,436 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,912 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,983 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,738 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,339 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,795 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,651 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,935 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,558 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,989 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,833 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,293 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,235 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,167 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,359 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,285 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,502 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,202 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,909 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,496 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tania has been given almost only to girls: 61 boys in 98 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tania, and how old are they?
27,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 28,952 Americans ever recorded as Tania. The median Tania alive today is 35 years old; half are between 24 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 42,281 people named Tania (42,197 women and girls, 84 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27,354 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 68 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,370 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,780 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,550 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,850 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Tania born?
The states with the most babies named Tania are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 90% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,317 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 19 | #1,348 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,158 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,607 | 0.5× |
Where Tania is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tania is most over-represented in California: since 1918 it was given 1.8 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 Tania 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 172,961 babies since 1880, Tania is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 93 of their 238 babies (39%), the 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 Tania
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 Tania and names like it
- Compare Tania and TanyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTania peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tania since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Tania.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tania alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.