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Tangi

Girls' name

Fire + dog

Tangi has been given to 340 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 1980, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Tangi, 1995

1 in 305,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tangi: meaning, origin, and history

Fire + dog

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tangi means

Tangi means “fire + dog”, associated with tan and ki.

Origin, language, and formation

Tangi is used in Breton.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 340 girls were recorded with the name Tangi between 1955 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1980; its best national rank was #3,099 in 1970.

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 Tangi?

Tangi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1995
1 in 305,000
12 of 3,660,254 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1995
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
211,426 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tangi 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 1995 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 211,426 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tangi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tangis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tangi was born before 1973 — so the typical Tangi is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
41.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
340
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (142).

Is Tangi 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 1980 (27)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,099
1970

Spellings of Tangi

Tangi is not the most common spelling — Tanya is, with 22.5% against Tangi's 0.07%.

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 Tangi is used

Across 1910–2025, Tangi was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,257,348 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 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. Tangi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tangi around the world

Where Tangi 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.

  • France
    1966–2012
    #4,570
    in 2012

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Tangi 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
#3,099
1970
Peak year
1980
27 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
340
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tangi

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

TansyTanylaTanayTangaTangyTandaTandiTaniTannyTanviTanaeTanzaTaneaTangeeTanyahTannisTanijaTanjiTaneyaTanniaTanaiTanajaTannahTannya

Sibling names for Tangi

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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