Tanuj

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Tanuj has been given to 70 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 2007, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Tanuj, 2016

1 in 734,000

Tanuj over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tanuj: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Tanuj means

Tanuj is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tanuj is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 70 boys were recorded with the name Tanuj between 1999 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2007; its best national rank was #7,785 in 1999.

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 Tanuj?

Tanuj had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016: 1 in 734,000; 5 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only: 1 in 380,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 508,706 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Tanuj sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tanuj. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tanujs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tanuj was born before 2007 — so the typical Tanuj is around 18 today.

Median birth year: 2007; About 18 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 51.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 70; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Tanuj 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 2007 (10)
Years since peak: 18; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,785; 1999

Spellings of Tanuj

Tanuj is not the most common spelling — Tatum is, with 45.7% against Tanuj's 0.24%.

Tatum45.7%13,225
Taj19.7%5,719
Tahj13.6%3,939
Anuj3.2%937
Tarun2.9%848
Tandy2.5%714
Manu2.4%701
Tan2.0%586

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.

Tanuj around the world

Where Tanuj 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
2015–2015
#4,747
in 2015

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Tanuj by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #7,785; 1999
Peak year: 2007; 10 that year
First recorded: 1999
Last recorded: 2016
All-time count: 70
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Tanuj

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

Tanvik Tano Tania Tanor Tank Tanmay Tannen Tanav Tanielu Tanay Tanvir Tanjiro Taniela Tanush Tannar Tandon Tandre Tanyon Tanish Tanya Tanar Tanny Tannon Tanishq

Sibling names for Tanuj

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

Jailyn Kalli Neveah Marlen Jaylyn Lupita Rhianna Marin

For a brother

Jaeden Nikhil Jamarcus Slade Brandt Nevin Ean Davian

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