Tanna
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 91 births
- Debut · girls
- 17 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,236since 1943
Tanna over time
Rank among girls' names. Tanna has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 |
| 2008 | #5,279 | 27 |
| 2007 | #4,299 | 35 |
| 2006 | #3,564 | 44 |
| 2005 | #3,366 | 45 |
| 2004 | #3,224 | 47 |
| 2003 | #2,999 | 50 |
| 2002 | #2,854 | 52 |
| 2001 | #2,963 | 48 |
| 2000 | #2,508 | 60 |
| 1999 | #2,222 | 67 |
| 1998 | #2,164 | 66 |
| 1997 | #2,102 | 67 |
| 1996 | #2,282 | 58 |
| 1995 | #2,486 | 51 |
| 1994 | #2,988 | 39 |
| 1993 | #2,241 | 58 |
| 1992 | #2,078 | 65 |
| 1991 | #2,242 | 58 |
| 1990 | #1,923 | 72 |
| 1989 | #2,278 | 52 |
| 1988 | #2,032 | 58 |
| 1987 | #1,762 | 67 |
| 1986 | #1,952 | 56 |
| 1985 | #1,680 | 69 |
| 1984 | #1,726 | 63 |
| 1983 | #1,993 | 51 |
| 1982 | #1,850 | 58 |
| 1981 | #1,714 | 66 |
| 1980 | #1,482 | 81 |
| 1979 | #1,349 | 91 |
| 1978 | #2,305 | 39 |
| 1977 | #2,341 | 38 |
| 1976 | #2,174 | 39 |
| 1975 | #2,060 | 42 |
| 1974 | #2,172 | 37 |
| 1973 | #2,171 | 36 |
| 1972 | #1,804 | 47 |
| 1971 | #2,107 | 39 |
| 1970 | #1,859 | 47 |
| 1969 | #1,755 | 48 |
| 1968 | #1,647 | 49 |
| 1967 | #1,702 | 45 |
| 1966 | #1,859 | 38 |
| 1965 | #1,575 | 50 |
| 1964 | #1,593 | 51 |
| 1963 | #1,372 | 65 |
| 1962 | #1,540 | 53 |
| 1961 | #1,893 | 37 |
| 1960 | #1,655 | 46 |
| 1959 | #1,585 | 47 |
| 1958 | #1,703 | 40 |
| 1957 | #1,705 | 40 |
| 1956 | #1,662 | 41 |
| 1955 | #2,108 | 26 |
| 1954 | #2,122 | 25 |
| 1953 | #1,973 | 27 |
| 1952 | #2,126 | 23 |
| 1951 | #1,740 | 31 |
| 1950 | #1,835 | 27 |
| 1949 | #1,627 | 33 |
| 1948 | #1,648 | 32 |
| 1947 | #1,822 | 28 |
| 1946 | #1,678 | 28 |
| 1945 | #1,993 | 18 |
| 1944 | #2,401 | 14 |
| 1943 | #2,151 | 17 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tanna! It came in at #2,151, and was given to 17 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2016, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Tanna is popular in 1972
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#398 · 1 in 2,526
- Michigan#924 · 1 in 12,378
Best ever in a state: #253 in Montana, 1956.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oregon | #398 | 5 | 1 in 2,526 |
| Michigan | #924 | 5 | 1 in 12,378 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Tanna
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 1979 at #1,349 (91 births)
- Births halved by 1994, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,640 girls born in 1979 were named Tanna (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 320,916 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- 19.2% of all girls named Tanna (621) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 170 | #1,627 (1949) | #1,903 |
| 1950s | 327 | #1,585 (1959) | #1,856 |
| 1960s | 482 | #1,372 (1963) | #1,659 |
| 1970s | 455 | #1,349 (1979) | #2,034 |
| 1980s | 621 | #1,482 (1980) | #1,847 |
| 1990s | 601 | #1,923 (1990) | #2,273 |
| 2000s | 430 | #2,508 (2000) | #3,715 |
| 2010s | 121 | #6,182 (2010) | #9,073 |
| 2020s | 29 | #9,680 (2022) | #12,306 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tanna in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 32,367 of them was named Tanna, which outranked 81.3% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,786Sirena48
- #1,786Tatiana48
- #1,786Tomi48
- #1,804Tanna47
- #1,804Beckie47
- #1,804Cassondra47
- #1,804Cherice47
- #1,832Asha46
- #1,832Belen46
- #1,832Blanche46
Tied with 27 names at #1,804; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.