Tanayah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tanayah has been given to 190 babies in the U.S. since 1995. 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 2006, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Tanayah, 2020
1 in 557,000
Tanayah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Tanayah?
Tanayah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,313 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 269,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,120 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tanayah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tanayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tanayahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tanayah was born before 2006 — so the typical Tanayah is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 60.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 190
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 60.5% of all recorded uses (115).
Is Tanayah 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2006 (19)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.4% average annual change
Spellings of Tanayah
Tanayah is not the most common spelling — Tanya is, with 39.4% against Tanayah'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.
Tanayah around the world
Where Tanayah 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 & Wales2007–2019#5,591in 2019
- South Australia2001–2012#871in 2012
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.
Tanayah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tanayah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tanayah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.