girls:
3.2k births since 1943
#3048 (47th percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1943
#4793 (38th percentile)
The name Tanna is the #4,793 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,235 recorded births since 1943. This represents the 38.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,048 (46.7% percentile) for all time with 3,235 births since 1943.
Tanna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1943 (first recorded for girls in 1943). Birth data for Tanna is available in 80 out of the 81 years between 1943 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Tanna reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 11.0% percentile (ranked #700) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 53 births per million (ranked 11.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2001, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tanna ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 5.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tanna".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Tanna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Tanna is pronounced as TA-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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