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Taniya

#5,889 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Tanya

Taniya has been given to 5,101 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #5,889 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 433 recorded.

Babies named Taniya, 2025

1 in 158,000

Taniya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Taniya: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tanya

Russian

What Taniya means

Taniya is a variant of Tanya.

Origin, language, and formation

Taniya is used in English. Its origins include Russian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tanya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,101 girls were recorded with the name Taniya between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 433 in 2006; its best national rank was #665 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,996 in 2020 to #5,889 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,235 in 2015 to #5,889 in 2025.

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 Taniya?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,889
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taniya 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 2025 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taniya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taniyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taniya was born before 2006 — so the typical Taniya is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
64.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,101
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 64.7% of all recorded uses (3,301).

Is Taniya 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
+1,669
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,893
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,654
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.8%
Peak was 2006 (433)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#665
2006

Spellings of Taniya

Taniya is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 19.4% against Taniya's 0.46%.

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 Taniya is used

Across 1910–2025, Taniya was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 34,175 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 12,500
  2. 2Georgia1 in 12,500
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 12,500
  4. 4District of Columbia1 in 14,286
  5. 5Alabama1 in 16,667
  6. 6Maryland1 in 16,667
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 16,667
  8. 8Illinois1 in 20,000

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. Taniya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Taniya around the world

Where Taniya 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 & Wales
    1996–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • France
    2007–2023
    #3,997
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2006–2006
    #2,587
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Taniya

People whose public names include Taniya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Taniya by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,889
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,893
Best rank ever
#665
2006
Peak year
2006
433 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,101
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Taniya

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

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Names with a curve like Taniya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Taniya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JamyaJalynnJaidenCloeCitlalyJaidynMakailaJaedynIyanaAdamarisJoselinNyasia

Sibling names for Taniya

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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