Tania is a distinctive choice, ranked #2001 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Tania in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#2001
About the Name Tania
Tania has seen a notable decline in recent years, dropping 314 places in five years. It was most popular in 1997 at #460 — parents choosing it today are making a deliberately counter-trend decision. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Tania is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school — standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Tania
Unlikely. With around 14 UK babies named Tania per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Tania in her class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Tania has been declining in UK popularity, dropping 314 places in the last five years. Its peak was #460 in 1997. Choosing it now means she is likely to be among the last of her generation with this name.
Tania is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Tania include: Tania Gunadi — Tania Gunadi is an Indonesian actress.; Tania Kernaghan — Tania Maree Kernaghan is an Australian country music singer.; Tania Haiböck — Tania Haiböck is an Austrian triathlete who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics..
Tania does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Tanias in the wild.
14
UK babies named Tania (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↓ 314 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Tania
Likely around 1 other Tania in the class
UK Popularity (1996–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Tania
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Tania Maree Kernaghan is an Australian country music singer. During her career, Tania has earned fifteen number one radio hits singles, numerous awards, sell out concerts and record sales in the hundreds of thousands.
Tania Bruguera is a Cuban artist and activist who focuses on installation and performance art. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she works as head of media and performance at Harvard University.
Tania Chernova was a Russian-American ballerina and medical trainee known for serving in the Red Army as a sniper during World War II. She traveled to Belarus to get her grandparents out of Russia, but upon arriving learned that German invaders had already killed them.
Tania Maria is a Brazilian artist, singer, composer, bandleader and piano player, singing mostly in Portuguese or English. Her Brazilian-style music is mostly vocal, sometimes pop, often jazzy, and includes samba, bossa, Afro-Latin, pop and jazz fusion.
Tania Sachdev is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a two-time Indian women's chess champion in 2006 and 2007, one-time Asian women's chess champion in 2007 and three-time Commonwealth Women's Chess Champion in 2016, 2018, and 2019.