Tánja
given name · Latin script
Tánja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Russian Та́ня (Tánja). Cognate to English Tania.
- SISlovenia1 in 269(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 487
- HRCroatia1 in 636
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 269 (inferred from the name graph)
11,447 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tanja in FI Finland, US United States.
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)From Russian Та́ня (Tánja). Cognate to English Tania.
Cited for this meaning 4
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tánja 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.
11,447 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tánja mean, and where does it come from?
- From Russian Та́ня (Tánja). Cognate to English Tania. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Tánja have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Tánja, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tanja.
- Where is Tánja most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tánja is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 269 people — even though Finland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tánja?
- In Finland, the national register counted 11,447 people named Tánja, about 1 in 487 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%A1njaThe 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, “Tánja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.