Tapanga — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tapanga

The Social Security Administration has registered 549 babies named Tapanga between 1995 and 2021, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tapanga currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 54 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tapanga performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 313 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Tapanga shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Missouri, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Tapanga in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tapanga 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 549 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.