Taniya
Taniya was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,889 among girls’ names; 5,101 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,040 Americans named Taniya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 17 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taniya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Taniya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Taniya is “a female given name from Russian, variant of Tanya and Tania.”
From Russian.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Taniya?
#5,889 among girls’ names, 2025
Taniya fell from #2,235 in 2015 to #5,889 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 47.6 to 13.1 per million.
433 babies in 2006, the peak
Taniya peaked in 2006, when 433 girls were given it, #665 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,889 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,558 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,646 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,660 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,927 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,996 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,841 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,197 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,870 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,793 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #2,235 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,068 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 121 | #1,723 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 113 | #1,806 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 158 | #1,439 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 230 | #1,090 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 306 | #896 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 316 | #883 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 367 | #789 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 433 | #665 | 0.23 |
| 2005 | 409 | #680 | 0.22 |
| 2004 | 385 | #699 | 0.21 |
| 2003 | 384 | #684 | 0.21 |
| 2002 | 293 | #801 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 235 | #944 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 173 | #1,164 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 128 | #1,386 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,863 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,584 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,290 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 39 | #3,010 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,998 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,974 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,569 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,045 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,255 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,327 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,577 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,744 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,439 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,414 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,192 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,655 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,323 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,988 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,714 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,255 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,182 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,515 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,165 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,880 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,495 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,896 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,375 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taniya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taniya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taniya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taniya, and how old are they?
5,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,101 Americans ever recorded as Taniya. The median Taniya alive today is 20 years old; half are between 17 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 4,025 people named Taniya (4,015 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,907 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 76 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 281 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,020 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 666 |
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 Taniya born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #2,452 | 1.5× |
Where Taniya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Taniya is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1969 it was given 3.1 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 Taniya 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, Taniya is the fourth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 238 babies (8.8%), again the fourth most given.
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 Taniya
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 Taniya and names like it
- Compare Taniya and TanyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTaniya peaked in 2006.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taniya since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Taniya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taniya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.