Tanja — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tanja

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,580 babies named Tanja between 1943 and 2007, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tanja currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 153 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tanja performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 951 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Tanja shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 226 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Tanja in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tanja 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 2,580 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.