Tannis
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tannis has been given to 322 babies in the U.S. since 1941. 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 1974, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Tannis, 2005
1 in 481,000
Tannis 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Tannis?
Tannis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 481,000
- 8 of 3,844,258 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 333,081 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tannis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 333,081 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tannis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tanniss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tannis was born before 1974 — so the typical Tannis is around 51 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 26.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 34.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 288
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 26.2% of all recorded uses (83).
Is Tannis 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 1974 (14)
- Years since peak
- 51
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.9% average annual change
Spellings of Tannis
Tannis is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 58.1% against Tannis'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.
Tannis around the world
Where Tannis 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.
- Canada1991–2007#2,417in 2007
- South Australia1984–1984#661in 1984
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Tannis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Tannis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tannis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.