Taniya
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Slavic
- US rank, 2025
- #5,721 for girls
Taniya is a girls' name of Slavic origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,721st for girls in the US (21 babies).
What does Taniya mean?
Slavic
A female given name from Russian, variant of Tanya and Tania.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Taniya a girl's or a boy's name?
Taniya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 21 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Taniya in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2003, with 14 girls.
Half of all the girls named Taniya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2000 and 2010. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Taniya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 7 | #3,360 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,741 |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 2007 | 10 | #2,354 |
| 2006 | 9 | #2,451 |
| 2005 | 12 | #1,912 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 14 | #1,564 |
| 2002 | 7 | #2,436 |
| 2001 | 6 | #2,587 |
| 2000 | 7 | #2,304 |
| 1999 | 6 | #2,559 |
| 1998 | 10 | #1,815 |
| 1997 | 8 | #2,073 |
| 1996 | 6 | #2,469 |
How popular is Taniya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,721st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 21 about 1 in 77,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 57% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 21 girls in the US were named Taniya, making it the 5,721st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,914th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 433 girls. It first appears in the records in 1969.
Half of all the girls named Taniya in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 67 girls in the US were given Taniya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,201, up from #5,721 for this spelling alone.
- Taniyah 46
- Taniya 21
Taniya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,721 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,579 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,881 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,914 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,787 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,157 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,835 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,761 |
| 2015 | 85 | #2,209 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,049 |
| 2013 | 121 | #1,713 |
| 2012 | 113 | #1,802 |
| 2011 | 158 | #1,434 |
| 2010 | 230 | #1,082 |
| 2009 | 306 | #894 |
| 2008 | 316 | #882 |
| 2007 | 367 | #784 |
| 2006 | 433 | #665 |
| 2005 | 409 | #680 |
| 2004 | 385 | #698 |
| 2003 | 384 | #683 |
| 2002 | 293 | #800 |
| 2001 | 235 | #939 |
| 2000 | 173 | #1,160 |
| 1999 | 128 | #1,376 |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,842 |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,553 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,232 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,972 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,887 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,820 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,497 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,930 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,055 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,356 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,316 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,330 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,518 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,029 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,965 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,210 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,909 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,126 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,516 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,694 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,931 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,442 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,903 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,171 |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,290 |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,069 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,615 |
Names like Taniya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Anaya, Safa, Amaya, Safiya, Khadija, Amira, Aliya, Aisha, Zainab, Raya, Halima
Other spellings of Taniya
Names related to Taniya
More Slavic names
Mila, Milan, Vera, Mira, Nadia, Milana, Rayna, Zora, Milena, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Lilyana, Yuri
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Taniya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/taniya, updated 20 October 2026.