girls:
28.7k births since 1918
#841 (85th percentile)
boys:
61 births since 1979
#4525 (1st percentile)
overall:
28.8k births since 1918
#1502 (81st percentile)
The name Tania is the #1,502 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 28,753 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 80.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #841 (85.3% percentile) for all time with 28,692 births since 1918. For boys, it ranks #4,525 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 61 births since 1979.
Tania first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for girls and 1979 for boys). Birth data for Tania is available in 96 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023 (96 years for girls and 9 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tania has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tania reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 65.9% percentile (ranked #296) with 429 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 466 births per million (ranked 61.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tania ranks #827 for girls (12.7% percentile) with 71 births per million, which is 15.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Tania reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #750) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tania".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Tania. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.8% confident that Tania is pronounced as TAH-nyuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TUH-nee-uh, at 17.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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