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Tanna

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tanna has been given to 3,236 babies in the U.S. since 1943. 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 1979, with 91 recorded.

Babies named Tanna, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tanna: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tanna means

Tanna is a given name.

The naming story behind Tanna

Wikidata records Tanna as a given name, female given name. The entity identifier is Q21142799, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,236 girls were recorded with the name Tanna between 1943 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 91 in 1979; its best national rank was #1,363 in 1979.

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.

How common is Tanna?

Tanna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tanna 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tanna was born before 1982 — so the typical Tanna is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
19.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,066
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 19.2% of all recorded uses (621).

Is Tanna 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1979 (91)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,363
1979

Spellings of Tanna

Tanna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 15.4% against Tanna's 0.05%.

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 Tanna is used

Across 1910–2025, Tanna was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 155,947 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Kansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Montana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  7. 7Oregon1 in 100,000
  8. 8Utah1 in 100,000

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

Tanna around the world

Where Tanna 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
    1997–2004
    #4,598
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1987–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tanna

People whose public names include Tanna, 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.

Tanna in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tanna. Linked forms have their own page here.

Tana

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tanna 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
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Best rank ever
#1,363
1979
Peak year
1979
91 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
3,236
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tanna

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

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Names with a curve like Tanna

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

JulieannNereidaNydiaDorianJeniseLeeanneRaeannDenniseCapriceVannessaLianneRosaura

Sibling names for Tanna

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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