Tania

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A diminutive of the female given names Tatiana or Tetyana

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

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

Tania 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
  • ECEcuador1 in 576(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.3K
  • BYBelarus≈1 in 528as Таня

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 Tania 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 people, 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 576 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

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)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Таня in RU Russia, BG Bulgaria, BY Belarus, Tanya in US United States, GB United Kingdom, 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)

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.

How Tania is read(measured from records)

Tania is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish40%

    Hipocorístico de Tatiana

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • English23%

    A diminutive of the female given names Tatiana or Tetyana.

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

  • Portuguese20%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Tania in Portuguese.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tania 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 Tania is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#207157,4581 in 1.3K173KTania192
US United States#298105,773as Tanya1 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#16029,3271 in 57629KTania69
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); 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)

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

  • Hindi given name68 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, English

    Also written Tanya, Taniya, তানিয়া, Thaniya, Thaneeya

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Tãnia, Tánia, Tània, Tanía, Tânia

  • Catalan given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Andorra, Argentina

    Also written Tània, Tânia

  • Indonesian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

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

  • Lao given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, India

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Tânia, Ťâňîâ, Tanía, Tánia, Täniä

  • Hungarian given name6 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Tänïä, Tânia, Tanïa

  • English (South Africa) given name2 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(measured from records)

Tania is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Diminutive of Tatiana, from Roman family name Tatianus

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

  • 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Tania,Hi Tania, (English)

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 116 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
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—563#214
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—336#1,331
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020187—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—182—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202593—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202084#1,011
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202156—

Reference works 5

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 Tania come from?
Diminutive of Tatiana, from Roman family name Tatianus Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
What are other forms of the name Tania?
In the etymology graph, Tanya, Tatiana and Tanja are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Tania?
In Brazil, the national register counted 157,458 people named Tania in 2022, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
How common is Tania compared with other names?
In Brazil, Tania is the 207th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Tania?
A machine transcription gives /tanja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Tania mean?
In English, A diminutive of the female given names Tatiana or Tetyana.
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.
In which country does Tania have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 157 thousand people named Tania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tania.
Where is Tania most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tania is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 576 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.

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

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