Tanvir — boys' name
266 babies named Tanvir in U.S. Social Security records since 1987, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
39% of everyone ever named Tanvir was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Tanvir in 1996 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tanvir
The Social Security Administration has registered 266 babies named Tanvir between 1987 and 2022, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tanvir currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tanvir performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 105 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tanvir shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 63 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tanvir in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tanvir 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 266 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.
Tanvir at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tanvir popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1987
- Peak year (1996)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 36 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
266 total births across 36 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1996 with 16 births in a single year.
Tanvir popularity over time — girls
7 total births recorded since 2001 (Tanvir as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Tanvir accounts for 3% of total recorded use across both genders.
Tanvir by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 105 births that decade — 39% of Tanvir's all-time total
Tanvir decade highlights
- Peak decade 105 births
- Runner-up 82 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Tanvir's strongest decade
105 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Tanvir by state
Where Tanvir concentrates geographically — total births since 1987
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 63 | 23.7% |
63 of 266 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 23.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 23.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration 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, 1987–2022 (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.