Tanna
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 8 babies a year in the US.
Tanna by the numbers
Tanna was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 91 babies in 1979, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Tanna
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Tanna. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Tanna
Names that are said the same way as Tanna, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Tanna
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