Tanna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of thana
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tanna is a 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)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 121K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 127K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- 1 in 114K (inferred from the name graph)
2,916 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of thana.
Sources 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 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 221K | 973 | Tanna | 95 |
| CA Canada | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 175K | — | Tanna | 56 |
| IT Italy | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 331K | — | Tanna | 6 |
| AU Australia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 176K | 1 | Tanna | 71 |
| SG Singapore | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Tanna | 12 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | 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). 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)
Attested in 32 sources 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.
- How do you pronounce Tanna?
- A machine transcription gives /tænə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Tanna a male or female name?
- Tanna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- 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.
- Where is Tanna most common?
- Tanna is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 114 thousand people carrying it.
What do you want to know about 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 2026-10-10.