Tane
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tane has been given to 176 babies in the U.S. since 1955. 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 1963, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.
Babies named Tane, 2004
1 in 764,000
Tane 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Tane over time
In 2012, Tane went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Tane?
Tane had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2004
- 1 in 764,000
- 5 of 3,820,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 367,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2004
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 529,591 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tane sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tanes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tane was born before 1964 — so the typical Tane is around 61 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 66.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 159
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 66.0% of all recorded uses (105).
Is Tane 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 1963 (26)
- Years since peak
- 62
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 63.0% average annual change
Spellings of Tane
Tane is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 11.9% against Tane's <0.01%.
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.
Tane around the world
Where Tane 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.
- South Australia1970–1988#657in 1988
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Tane by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Tane
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tane
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.