How rare is the name Tanja?

4,010 people in the United States have the first name Tanja, about 1 in 75,320. It ranks #4,588 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

TANJA

#4,588

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,010
About
1 in 75,320
This common or more
84.2%
Who bears it

Of the 4,010 people named Tanja, 78.2% reported their origin as White, 13.1% as Black and 4.9% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (100%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tanja peaked in 1970, when 153 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19432007
Peak year
1970
Births that year
153
In 2007
7 ▼95%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 2,580 babies have been given the name since 1943. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Tanja by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,853. The largest share of babies named Tanja, 58.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#11,12910
1950s#3,841210
1960s#1,853951
1970s#2,055924
1980s#4,539329
1990s#11,154126
2000s#29,03130
Silent Generation 1928–450.2%
Baby boom 1946–6424.5%
Generation X 1965–8058.4%
Millennials 1981–9614.9%
Generation Z 1997–122.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Exactly as common as Tanja

1 other first name also has 4,010 people.

#4,588 Annabell · 4,010

Either side of Tanja

#4,587 Jazmyne · 4,011#4,588 Annabell · 4,010#4,590 Jamarcus · 4,008#4,590 Prakash · 4,008

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tanja, most common first.

#18,452 Tanuja · 584#26,960 Tanga · 342#30,168 Tanka · 290#31,246 Tanija · 275#34,922 Tanaja · 232#39,388 Tanji · 192#39,641 Tanza · 190#51,342 Taunja · 114

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