Tanis — #13608 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Tanis

The Social Security Administration has registered 994 babies named Tanis between 1935 and 2024, spanning 90 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tanis currently holds the #13608 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1948, when 38 babies received it in a single year. Tanis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 535 additional births since 1926.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tanis performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 204 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Tanis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Tanis in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tanis 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 994 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.