girls:
317 births since 1941
#5399 (6th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2006
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
322 births since 1941
#7417 (4th percentile)
The name Tannis is the #7,417 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 322 recorded births since 1941. This represents the 4.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,399 (5.5% percentile) for all time with 317 births since 1941. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2006.
Tannis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1941 (1941 for girls and 2006 for boys). Birth data for Tannis is available in 46 out of the 66 years between 1941 and 2006 (45 years for girls and 1 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 Tannis has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2006, 0.0% of babies named Tannis were girls.
For girls, Tannis reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #737) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
For boys, Tannis reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #875) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tannis".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Tannis is pronounced as TA-nihs, which has 2 syllables.
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