Tanna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of thana
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: SSA, 2023
Tanna is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 114K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 170Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 170Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 108K (inferred from the name graph)
2,916 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Alternative form of thana.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tanna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,916 | 1 in 114K | 2.9K | Tanna | 280 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 197K | 973 | Tanna | 95 |
| IN India | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 5.5M | 213 | Tanna | 92 |
| CA Canada | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Tanna | 56 |
| AU Australia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 166K | 1 | Tanna | 71 |
| SG Singapore | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Tanna | 12 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Tanna | 11 |
2,916 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Tanna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, third-person singular past historic of tanner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite feminine singular of tann
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, indefinite genitive plural of tonn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, indefinite genitive plural of tönn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of tann
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Tanna Altmannb. 1940CZHolocaust victim (born 1940)
- Tanna Frederickb. 1979USAmerican actress
- Tanna Sanchezb. 2001MXMexican association football player
- Tanna J. BoyerUSassociate professor of clinical anesthesia
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.9K | #5,739 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 91 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 81 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 72 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 69 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 67 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 67 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 67 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 66 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 66 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 65 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1963 | 65 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tanna mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of thana. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Tanna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,916 people named Tanna in 2020, about 1 in 114 thousand residents.
- Is Tanna a male or female name?
- Tanna is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Tanna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Tanna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tanna.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tannaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tanna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.