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Tahnee

Girls' name

Variant of Tawny

Tahnee has been given to 919 babies in the U.S. since 1967. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1985, with 83 recorded.

Babies named Tahnee, 2009

1 in 637,000

Tahnee over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tahnee: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tawny

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tahnee means

Tahnee is a variant of Tawny.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tahnee is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɔː.ni/ for Tahnee.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tahnee → Tawny. The family’s meaning is “light brown”, recorded in the naming reference for Tawny.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tawny.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 919 girls were recorded with the name Tahnee between 1967 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 83 in 1985; its best national rank was #1,488 in 1985.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Tahnee?

Tahnee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 637,000
6 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 306,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
441,341 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tahnee sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 441,341 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tahnee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tahnees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tahnee was born before 1986 — so the typical Tahnee is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
47.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
919
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 47.2% of all recorded uses (434).

Is Tahnee rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1985 (83)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,488
1985

Spellings of Tahnee

Tahnee is not the most common spelling — Janee is, with 14.4% against Tahnee's 4.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tahnee is used

Across 1910–2025, Tahnee was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 314,659 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tahnee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tahnee around the world

Where Tahnee ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2023
    #4,057
    in 2023
  • France
    1992–2006
    #5,865
    in 2006
  • Canada
    1994–1994
    #2,260
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1972–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tahnee by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,488
1985
Peak year
1985
83 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
919
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tahnee

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Tahnee

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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