Tanice

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Tanice has been given to 66 babies in the U.S. since 1951. 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 1994, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Tanice, 2007

1 in 800,000

Tanice over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tanice: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tanice means

Tanice is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tanice is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 66 girls were recorded with the name Tanice between 1951 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1994; its best national rank was #5,347 in 1951.

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.

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How common is Tanice?

Tanice had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007: 1 in 800,000; 5 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only: 1 in 384,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 554,207 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Tanice 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 2007 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 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tanice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tanices were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tanice was born before 1986 — so the typical Tanice is around 39 today.

Median birth year: 1986; About 39 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 60.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 66; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Tanice 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 1994 (9)
Years since peak: 31; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,347; 1951

Spellings of Tanice

Tanice is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 42.5% against Tanice's <0.01%.

Alice42.5%588,147
Janice29.4%406,448
Eunice5.8%80,336
Janie5.5%75,598
Candice4.9%67,984
Janine2.4%33,508
Tania2.1%28,891
Danica1.2%16,522

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.

Tanice 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: #5,347; 1951
Peak year: 1994; 9 that year
First recorded: 1951
Last recorded: 2007
All-time count: 66
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Tanice

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

Taneice Tandice Tanish Tanzie Taneah Tanari Tanvika Tanesa Tangia Tanisa Tanise Tanaia Tanell Taneja Tanisi Taneha Tanley Tannie Tanyla Tangla Tannaz Tanith Taneia Taneal

Sibling names for Tanice

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Breonna Austin Darian Rikki Khadijah Lucero Kaylene Jacquelynn

For a brother

Denton Jade Darion Darrius Mackenzie Daquan Dashawn Hernan

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