Tanel

given name · Estonian · Latin script

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

Tanel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is the 76th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Estonian and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Daniel.

rarermore common
  • EEEstonia1 in 582◐
  • ISIceland1 in 88K
  • FIFinland1 in 348K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈53 ●

across 7 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
65 ●

1.6K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 88K ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

TanelLatin · Estonian●7.3K records
ТанелCyrillic · Russian●47 records

Locally spelled Танель in UA Ukraine and Танел in RU Russia.

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

Meaning & origin●

a male given name, equivalent to English Daniel

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Tanel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EE Estonia#767,3021.2K rec.—2.6KTanel65
US United States—93117 rec.—listedTanel30
UA Ukraine—4764 rec.——Танель5
RU Russia—2510 rec.——Танел11
SE Sweden—24△6 rec.1 in 425K24Tanel9
GB United Kingdom—2414 rec.——Tanel15
BR Brazil—213 rec.——Tanel9
PH Philippines—1921 rec.——Tanel3
FI Finland—1654 rec.1 in 348K743Tanel15
AR Argentina—1330 rec.——Tanel12
NO Norway—109 rec.—56Tanel4
VE Venezuela—88 rec.——Tanel6

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Estonian7.3K72%
  • Finnish8158%
  • English6296%
  • Turkish5015%
  • French1411%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Estonian7,32572%
Finnish8158%
English6296%
Turkish5015%
French1411%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Tanel is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name258 records spelled Tanel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Estonia, United States

    Also written Tanël

  • Bulgarian given name51 records spelled Tanel6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, Bulgaria, Türkiye

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Танел

33 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●

Tanel is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Breton, enflammé

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

  • In Turkish, Şafak gibi aydınlık, güçlü eli olan kimse.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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.

Over time●

051015202000200520102015202018 · 2015

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Tanel in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199910
200011
200112
200212
200313
200413
200512
200610
200710
200811
200912
201011
201113
201213
201314
201415
201518
201617
201716
201816
201916
202015

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19601970198019902000Tanel Tammet, b. 1965Tanel Joamets, b. 1968Tanel Veenre, b. 1977Tanel Padar, b. 1980Tanel Toom, b. 1982Tanel Sokk, b. 1985Tanel Kangert, b. 1987Tanel Kurbas, b. 1988Tanel Kiik, b. 1989Tanel Derard, b. 1991

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Tanel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register)—2.6K#57
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—743#1,733
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—56#11,243
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—24#22,037
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—21#47,268
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201518—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201617—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—16—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201916—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201816—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201716—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202015—

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 46 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tanel?
We estimate roughly 53 people bear Tanel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Tanel have the most bearers?
Tanel is most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is most often spelled tanel.
How common is Tanel compared with other names?
In Estonia, Tanel is the 76th most common given name of 14,570 given names recorded there.
Is Tanel a male or female name?
Tanel is a male 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.
What does the name Tanel mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Daniel
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Tanel” — the 76th most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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