Tanaiya
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tanaiya has been given to 167 babies in the U.S. since 1992. 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 2003, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Tanaiya, 2012
1 in 523,000
Tanaiya over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Tanaiya?
Tanaiya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 523,000
- 7 of 3,657,590 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 252,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 362,179 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tanaiya sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 362,179 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tanaiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tanaiyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tanaiya was born before 2004 — so the typical Tanaiya is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 76.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 167
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 76.6% of all recorded uses (128).
Is Tanaiya 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
- —
- 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2003 (21)
- Years since peak
- 22
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.7% average annual change
Spellings of Tanaiya
Tanaiya is not the most common spelling — Tanya is, with 43.5% against Tanaiya's 0.06%.
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.
Tanaiya around the world
Where Tanaiya 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 & Wales2010–2013#4,739in 2013
- South Australia2002–2002#730in 2002
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Tanaiya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tanaiya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tanaiya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.