Tanis
Tanis is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 194838 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1935
- 1,529people given the name
The story in the numbers
994 girls have been named Tanis in the United States since 1935, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1948, with 38 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1968, and the 1970s alone account for 21%.
Tanis is used for both sexes: 35% of its bearers are boys (535), most of them born around 2000.
By decade
In 1948, its biggest year
Tanis was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1948 were Linda, Mary, Barbara, Patricia and Susan. See all of 1948.
Names that rose and fell with Tanis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Arlindapeak 1949
- Zandrapeak 1970
- Lesleepeak 1957
- Celindapeak 1954
- Lynnapeak 1963
- Michelinepeak 1951
- Denysepeak 1956
- Sherilynpeak 1946
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.