Tannia — girls' name
392 babies named Tannia in U.S. Social Security records since 1961, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
30% of everyone ever named Tannia was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Tannia in 1993 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tannia
The Social Security Administration has registered 392 babies named Tannia between 1961 and 2015, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tannia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tannia performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 118 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Tannia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 66 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tannia in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tannia 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 392 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.
Tannia at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tannia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1961
- Peak year (1993)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 55 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
392 total births across 55 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1993 with 20 births in a single year.
Tannia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 118 births that decade — 30% of Tannia's all-time total
Tannia decade highlights
- Peak decade 118 births
- Runner-up 91 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Tannia's strongest decade
118 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Tannia by state
Where Tannia concentrates geographically — total births since 1961
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 66 | 16.8% |
66 of 392 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 16.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 16.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1961–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.