Tanit
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Carthaginian mythology; name of the goddess of harvest and prosperity
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɑːnɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tanit is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 62K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 687K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 705K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
802 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Carthaginian mythology; name of the goddess of harvest and prosperity.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tanit 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 802 | 1 in 62K | 802 | Tanit | 46 |
| US United States | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Tanit | 26 |
| PE Peru | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 687K | — | Tanit | 16 |
| FR France | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 2M | listed | Tanit | 57 |
| BR Brazil | 29 | 1 in 7.3M | 34 | Tanit | 25 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Tanit | 7 |
| PA Panama | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 755K | — | Tanit | 4 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 705K | listed | — | 1 |
802 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the grand-guide-prenoms-unknown register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Tanit is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Name of a Carthaginian goddess of Phoenician origin
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Señora de las serpientes
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In English, A Punic and Phoenician goddess, the chief deity of Ancient Carthage alongside Baal-Hamon.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Tanit Plana Pessarrodonab. 1975ESSpanish photographer (born 1975)
- Tanit Kochb. 1977DEGerman journalist
- Tanit Phoenixb. 1980ZASouth African actress and model
- Tanit Lascellesb. 1981US(born 1981)
- Clara-Tanit Arquéb. 1981ESSpanish comics artist
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)
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 802 | #3,324 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 723 | #1,712 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 34 | #44,234 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 29 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 28 | #96,655 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tanit mean, and where does it come from?
- From Carthaginian mythology; name of the goddess of harvest and prosperity. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Tanit a male or female name?
- Tanit 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.
- How do you pronounce Tanit?
- A machine transcription gives /tɑːnɪt/ (IPA) for Thai.
- In which country does Tanit have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 802 people named Tanit, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tanit.
- Where is Tanit most common?
- Tanit is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 62 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tanit?
- In Spain, the national register counted 802 people named Tanit, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tanit?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tanitThe 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, “Tanit”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.