Girls' name · peaked in 1976

Tania name popularity since 1925

28,941 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Tania. Half of them were born in 1990 or earlier, so the typical Tania is about 36 years old in 2026. Tania peaked in 1976 as the #312 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 28,941; Named Tania, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1976; #312 for girls that year
Typical age: About 36; Median birth year 1990
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #2,050 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.8% girls; 28,880 girls · 61 boys
Most popular in: California; 2.41× its national share

Peak year is the year Tania made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Tania births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year by count was 1993. Measured as a share of all babies, Tania peaked in 1976.

Fastest rise: Between 1964 and 1969, Tania became 2.6× more common, from 1 in 8,850 baby girls to 1 in 3,350.
Steepest fall: Between 2006 and 2011, its share of baby girls fell by 63%, from 1 in 2,650 to 1 in 7,240.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Tania's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Tania.

Decade by decade

Babies named Tania in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	5	0	–
1930s	83	0	#2,294
1940s	234	0	#1,984
1950s	576	0	#1,369
1960s	2,864	0	#590
1970s	5,932	5	#325
1980s	4,249	18	#506
1990s	6,120	38	#466
2000s	6,179	0	#477
2010s	1,964	0	#1,487
2020–25	674	0	#2,050

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

29.9% of babies named Tania from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Z years (1997–2012). The full split by generation:

Where Tania is most popular

The index compares Tania's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Tania.

State	Index	Babies
California	2.41×	6,498
New York	1.56×	3,010
Texas	1.42×	2,837
Florida	1.41×	1,299
New Jersey	1.39×	974

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Tania and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

Spelling	Girls	Peak year
Tania (this page)	28,880	1976
Tanya	116,778	1974
Thania	1,426	1993

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Tania's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Tania.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Tania (1976).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data