Tania

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Tania is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 13th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Diminutive of Tatiana, from Roman family name Tatianus.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 224◐
  • BGBulgaria1 in 375
  • PTPortugal1 in 420

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

≈349K ●

across 7 countries

#290 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
508 ●

2.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 487 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

TaniaLatin · Portuguese●3.2M records
ТаняCyrillic · Russian●193K records
ธัญญาThai · Thai●15K records
טניהHebrew · Hebrew●8.9K records
ΤανιαGreek · Greek●317 records
ᲗანიაGeorgian · Georgian●10 records
타냐Hangul · Korean●1 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tanya in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 6 more, Таня in RU Russia, BG Bulgaria, UA Ukraine and 1 more, Tanja in HR Croatia and ธัญญา in TH Thailand.

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●

Diminutive of Tatiana, from Roman family name Tatianus

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Tania is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#131,268,3921 rec.——Tania3
RU Russia#171272,382103K rec.——Таня132
AU Australia#106191,572127K rec.—83Tanya227
MX Mexico#263179,073119K rec.—396Tania207
BR Brazil#152157,458△50K rec.1 in 1.3K173KTania191
AR Argentina#486138,56167K rec.—123Tania95
BG Bulgaria#41114,8719.9K rec.—22KТаня125
GB United Kingdom#282113,61397K rec.—7Tanya226
US United States#295105,6641.4M rec.1 in 3.1K106KTanya508
PE Peru#33698,48679K rec.——Tania76
VE Venezuela#38567,83122K rec.—1.1KTania51
CA Canada#21861,80654K rec.—1Tanya216

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

Languages●

  • Portuguese3.2M39%
  • Bangla1.9M24%
  • English1.8M22%
  • Spanish842K10%
  • French79K1%
Show as table
Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese3,174,13039%
Bangla1,914,02324%
English1,814,67822%
Spanish841,92110%
French78,8621%

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◐

Tania is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bangla given name2.1M records spelled Tania69 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, English

    Also written Taniya, Tanya, তানিয়া, Thaniya, Thaneeya

  • a separate given name30K records spelled Tania8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain

    Also written Tânia, Tània, Tani︠a︡, Tánia, Tãnia

  • Catalan given name29K records spelled Tania3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Andorra, Argentina

    Also written Tània, Tânia

  • Indonesian given name21K records spelled Tania8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Tania, Tania', Tânia, Tània, Taniá

  • Lao given name4.3K records spelled Tania16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, India

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Tânia, Tanía, Ťâňîâ, Tánia, Tanĭa

  • Finnish given name3.3K records spelled Tania6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Hungary, Spain

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Tänïä, Tanïa, Tânia

  • English (South Africa) given name627 records spelled Tania2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, New Zealand

    Also written Tânia

65 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●

Tania 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 or Tetyana.

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

  • In Spanish, Hipocorístico de Tatiana

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In French, Diminutif de Tatiana; origine latine, du nom Tatius, roi des Sabins.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • To treat with familiarity.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In German, Tania Blixen, dänische

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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●

02505007501K192019401960198020002020846 · 1993

Show as table
Tania in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1918–2025
Yearrecords
19185
19236
19295
19306
19316
19326
19336
19346
193514
193610
193717
193812
194010
194112
194212
194316
194424
194519
194624
194743
194842
194932
195046
195136
195243
195345
195448
195554
195655
195775
195868
1959106
1960130
1961172
1962219
1963223
1964214
1965263
1966314
1967376
1968450
1969503
1970511
1971529
1972568
1973522
1974674
1975699
1976732
1977615
1978515
1979567
1980502
1981484
1982400
1983392
1984396
1985400
1986410
1987418
1988421
1989426
1990498
1991579
1992674
1993846
1994697
1995542
1996600
1997524
1998582
1999578
2000605
2001642
2002702
2003716
2004636
2005645
2006718
2007609
2008504
2009402
2010300
2011243
2012237
2013195
2014192
2015155
2016153
2017187
2018160
2019142
2020131
2021105
2022117
2023125
2024103
202593

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 98 years between 1918–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Tania Mallet, b. 1941Tania Libertad, b. 1952Tania Bruguera, b. 1968Tania Trypi, b. 1969Tania Popa, b. 1973Tania Russof, b. 1974Tania Saulnier, b. 1982Tania Cagnotto, b. 1985Tania Sachdev, b. 1986Tania Raymonde, b. 1988

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 114 sources across 62 countries.

Official registers attesting Tania
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—173K#290
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022157K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—157K#214
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202042K#1,011
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202429K#63
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—28K#265
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—28K#155
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20249.9K#1,119
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—2.3K#321
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—736#2,106
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—699#478
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—628#2,163

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 1,286 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tania?
We estimate roughly 349 thousand people bear Tania (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Tania have the most bearers?
Tania is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled tania.
How common is Tania compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Tania is the 13th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
Is Tania a male or female name?
Tania 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.
What does the name Tania mean?
Recorded meaning: Diminutive of Tatiana, from Roman family name Tatianus
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tania

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.

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, “Tania” — the 13th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

See how Tania parses inside a full name →