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Tana

#17,013 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Tanya

Tana has been given to 9,280 babies in the U.S. since 1924. In 2025 it ranked #17,013 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1962, with 241 recorded.

Babies named Tana, 2025

1 in 663,000

Tana over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tana: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Tanya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tana means

Tana is a form of Tanya.

Origin, language, and formation

Tana is used in English and Sakizaya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tanya.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Sakizaya, Tana is pronounced /ta.ˈna/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,274 girls were recorded with the name Tana between 1924 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 241 in 1962; its best national rank was #655 in 1962.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,893 in 2020 to #17,013 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,573 in 2015 to #17,013 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Tana between 1975 and 1975. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1975; its best national rank was #5,382 in 1975.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#17,013
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tana 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tana was born before 1970 — so the typical Tana is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
22.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
8,341
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (2,063).

Is Tana 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
−8,634
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−10,120
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−9,440
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.31×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.1%
Peak was 1962 (241)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#655
1962

Spellings of Tana

Tana is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 11.8% against Tana's 0.12%.

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 Tana is used

Across 1910–2025, Tana was most concentrated in Montana — about 1 in 1,852 girls, against 1 in 28,782 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

054 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Montana1 in 1,852
  2. 2Oregon1 in 6,667
  3. 3Washington1 in 7,692
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 12,500
  5. 5Utah1 in 12,500
  6. 6North Dakota1 in 14,286
  7. 7Ohio1 in 14,286
  8. 8Texas1 in 14,286

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. Tana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tana around the world

Where Tana 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
    2001–2017
    #4,763
    in 2017
  • France
    1984–2024
    #5,699
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2005
    #2,482
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1948–1989
    #692
    in 1989

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.

Notable people named Tana

People whose public names include Tana, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tana in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tana. Linked forms have their own page here.

Tanna

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,013
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 10,120
Best rank ever
#655
1962
Peak year
1962
241 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,274
Count in 2025
5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,382
1975
Peak year
1975
6 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
1975
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tana

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

HanaTaniaSanaRanaElanaTaniyaGianaIvanaTanviJoanaJeanaTaniAyanaChanaIlanaYanaNanaIyanaLeanaLuanaZanaJuanaAlianaTanner

Names with a curve like Tana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CharlaAndraGinnyJaneenCarynRenaeSandiJoleenAntionetteBettinaDeenaNicki

Sibling names for Tana

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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