Tanja

Where Tanja comes from

The dictionaries list Tanja as a given name — a female given name, variant of Tanya — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1943
    First appearance
    #4,691 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Peak, #871
    153 babies named Tanja — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1971
    Tanja Fajon born
    Slovenian politician
  4. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,447.
  5. 1980
    Tanja Poutiainen born
    Finnish alpine skier
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Tanya
Namesakes
  • Tanja Poutiainen · Finnish alpine skier, born 1980
  • Tanja Fajon · Slovenian politician, born 1971
  • Tanja Ribič · Slovene actress and singer, born 1968
  • Tanja Frieden · snowboarder, born 1976
  • Tanja Stupar-Trifunović · author from Bosnia and Herzegovina, born 1977

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.