Tanita — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tanita

The Social Security Administration has registered 607 babies named Tanita between 1961 and 2001, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tanita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2001. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 35 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tanita performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 236 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tanita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Tanita in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tanita 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 607 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.