Tanina
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tanina has been given to 130 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1972, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Tanina, 1996
1 in 729,000
Tanina 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Tanina?
Tanina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 729,000
- 5 of 3,646,048 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 350,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 505,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tanina sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 505,451 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tanina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Taninas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tanina was born before 1982 — so the typical Tanina is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 47.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 130
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 47.7% of all recorded uses (62).
Is Tanina 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 1972 (12)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.2% average annual change
Spellings of Tanina
Tanina is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 35.5% against Tanina'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.
Tanina around the world
Where Tanina 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.
- France1950–2025#2,555in 2025
- South Australia1960–1973#695in 1973
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Tanina by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tanina
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tanina
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.