Tanya

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Russian pet form of Tatiana, now quite commonly used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/tʰɑɲə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tanya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Bulgaria it is the 46th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2K
  • USUnited States1 in 3.1K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tanya itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

157,458 named Tania, 2022

#421 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
563 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Australia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TanyaLatin(measured from records)
ТаняCyrillic(measured from records)
ธัญญาThai(measured from records)
טניהHebrew(measured from records)
ΤάνιαGreek(measured from records)
თანიაGeorgian(measured from records)
태냐Hangul(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Таня in RU Russia, BG Bulgaria, BY Belarus, Tania in BR Brazil, EC Ecuador, Tanja in HR Croatia and Танья in FI Finland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Russian pet form of Tatiana, now quite commonly used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world. Variant: Tania.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tanya 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.

Where Tanya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#207157,458as Tania1 in 1.3K173KTania192
US United States#298105,7731 in 3.1K106KTanya563
GB United Kingdom#291≈32,000 est.≈1 in 2K7Tanya297
RU Russia#192≈30,000 est.≈1 in 4.7K—Таня146
EC Ecuador#16029,327as Tania1 in 57629KTania69
AU Australia#105≈25,000 est.≈1 in 1K83Tanya242
BY Belarus#83≈18,000 est.≈1 in 52816Таня35
BG Bulgaria#46≈12,000 est.≈1 in 56822KТаня130
FI Finland#90011,447as Tanja1 in 48712KТанья34
HR Croatia#1676,645as Tanja1 in 6366.6KTanja111

157,458 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); NSI — most common given names in the population (annual press release); INEC — civil registry names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tanya is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, France, Ecuador

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Tânya, Tanyà, Tänyä, Tâńyâ, TâNyâ

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Tanyà, Ṭān̲yā, Tānyā, Tanyá, Tânya

  • Hindi given name68 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Bangladesh, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, English

    Also written Taniya, Tania, তানিয়া, Thaniya, Thaneeya

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, India, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Tànya

  • Hungarian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, United Kingdom, Finland

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Tänyä

64 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tanya 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 English, A diminutive of the female given names Tatiana (from Russian) or Tetyana (from Ukrainian).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Kurdish, Unique, one of a kind, representing an incomparable beauty and worth

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

  • Russian: pet form of TATIANA , now quite commonly also used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world. Variants: Tania (an English spelling); Tanja (a German spelling) .

    as a word

  • In Hungarian, detached farm (-stead)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In bnt-pro, midday; sun

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

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)

1940196019802000Tanya Lopert, b. 1942Tanya Roberts, b. 1949Tanya Tucker, b. 1958Justine Bateman, b. 1966Tanya Seghatchian, b. 1968Tanya Wexler, b. 1970Tanya Moodie, b. 1972Tanya Tate, b. 1979Tanja Reichert, b. 1980Fara Williams, b. 1984

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)

InformalHi Tanya,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 104 sources across 57 countries.

Official registers attesting Tanya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020106K#531
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20245.8K#314
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—274#1,480
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022238—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—235#22,462
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—199—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020109#531
AU AustraliaNSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present)198783#90
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—47#49,503
AU AustraliaQLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present)198841—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202540—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)200030—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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

Where does the name Tanya come from?
Russian pet form of Tatiana, now quite commonly used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world. Variant: Tania. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
What are other forms of the name Tanya?
In the etymology graph, Tatiana, Tania and Tanja are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Tanya a male or female name?
Tanya 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.
How do you pronounce Tanya?
A machine transcription gives /tʰɑɲə/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Tanya mean?
Recorded meaning: Russian pet form of Tatiana, now quite commonly used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world.
In which country does Tanya have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 157 thousand people named Tania, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Tanya?
In the United States, the national register counted 105,773 people named Tanya in 2020, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
How common is Tanya compared with other names?
In Brazil, Tanya is the 207th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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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, “Tanya” — the 207th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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