Taniyah
Taniyah was given to 46 girls in 2025, #3,382 among girls’ names; 4,247 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,210 Americans named Taniyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taniyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taniyah?
#3,382 among girls’ names, 2025
Taniyah fell from #1,777 in 2015 to #3,382 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 66.1 to 28.6 per million.
326 babies in 2003, the peak
Taniyah peaked in 2003, when 326 girls were given it, #762 among girls’ names. The 46 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,382 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,117 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,887 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,992 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,888 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,744 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 83 | #2,229 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 96 | #2,046 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,928 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 95 | #2,083 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 118 | #1,777 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 112 | #1,829 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 139 | #1,564 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 180 | #1,314 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 191 | #1,256 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 216 | #1,135 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 325 | #858 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 300 | #915 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 313 | #890 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 303 | #879 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 273 | #913 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 311 | #810 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 326 | #762 | 0.18 |
| 2002 | 122 | #1,553 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 111 | #1,650 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,625 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,305 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,818 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,112 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,527 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,473 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,282 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,349 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taniyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taniyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taniyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taniyah, and how old are they?
4,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,247 Americans ever recorded as Taniyah. The median Taniyah alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,913 people named Taniyah (2,910 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,899 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 40 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,070 |
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 Taniyah born?
The states with the most babies named Taniyah are Texas, Georgia and Tennessee, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #3,253 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,762 | 2.1× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,295 | 1.5× |
Where Taniyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Taniyah is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1992 it was given 2.5 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 Taniyah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Taniyah?
Taniyah is a less common spelling of Tanya: SSA has recorded 4,247 Taniyah and 117,260 Tanya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 159,284 babies since 1880, Taniyah is the fourth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 213 babies (22%), the second 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 Taniyah
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 Taniyah and names like it
- Compare Taniyah and TanyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTaniyah peaked in 2003.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taniyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Taniyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taniyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.