Tanna
Tanna was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 3,236 Americans have been recorded with it between 1943 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,980 Americans named Tanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 29 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tanna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,362, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
91 babies in 1979, the peak
Tanna peaked in 1979, when 91 girls were given it, #1,363 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #17,362 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,317 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,331 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,338 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,379 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,661 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,620 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,574 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,443 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,988 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 19 | #6,842 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,391 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,362 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,292 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,419 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,371 | 18.2 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,611 | 23.1 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,397 | 24.4 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,257 | 25.6 |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,036 | 27.4 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,882 | 28.9 |
| 2001 | 48 | #3,001 | 26.7 |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,535 | 33.0 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,250 | 37.8 |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,183 | 37.4 |
| 1997 | 67 | #2,110 | 38.5 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,306 | 33.1 |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,509 | 29.0 |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,029 | 21.8 |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,258 | 32.1 |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,097 | 35.3 |
| 1991 | 58 | #2,262 | 30.9 |
| 1990 | 72 | #1,931 | 37.9 |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,294 | 28.2 |
| 1988 | 58 | #2,043 | 32.6 |
| 1987 | 67 | #1,772 | 38.5 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,974 | 32.6 |
| 1985 | 69 | #1,689 | 40.1 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,748 | 37.4 |
| 1983 | 51 | #2,019 | 30.5 |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,870 | 34.3 |
| 1981 | 66 | #1,733 | 39.6 |
| 1980 | 81 | #1,493 | 48.8 |
| 1979 | 91 | #1,363 | 56.7 |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,347 | 25.5 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,376 | 24.8 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,206 | 26.6 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,092 | 28.8 |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,209 | 25.2 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,216 | 24.7 |
| 1972 | 47 | #1,830 | 30.9 |
| 1971 | 39 | #2,134 | 23.4 |
| 1970 | 47 | #1,876 | 26.9 |
| 1969 | 48 | #1,782 | 28.5 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,675 | 29.9 |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,729 | 27.3 |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,878 | 22.5 |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,592 | 28.3 |
| 1964 | 51 | #1,609 | 26.9 |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,390 | 33.7 |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,555 | 27.0 |
| 1961 | 37 | #1,915 | 18.3 |
| 1960 | 46 | #1,671 | 22.8 |
| 1959 | 47 | #1,593 | 23.2 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,728 | 19.9 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,724 | 19.6 |
| 1956 | 41 | #1,679 | 20.4 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,150 | 13.3 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,181 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 27 | #2,011 | 14.4 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,193 | 12.4 |
| 1951 | 31 | #1,768 | 17.2 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,865 | 15.8 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,659 | 19.3 |
| 1948 | 32 | #1,662 | 18.8 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,854 | 15.8 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,715 | 17.8 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,050 | 13.8 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,496 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,240 | 12.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tanna, and how old are they?
2,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,236 Americans ever recorded as Tanna. The median Tanna alive today is 42 years old; half are between 29 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 2,916 people named Tanna (2,887 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,027 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 27 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 554 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 712 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 915 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 679 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 92 |
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 Tanna born?
The states with the most babies named Tanna are Texas, California and Arizona, with 72% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 238 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 97 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Oregon | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kansas | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Tanna 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 170,198 babies since 1880, Tanna is the fifth most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 192 babies recorded by SSA was a Tanna (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Tanna
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 Tanna and names like it
- Compare Tanna and TanyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTanna peaked in 1979.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tanna since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Tanna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tanna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.