Taunya
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables.
Taunya by the numbers
Its American peak was 103 babies in 1971, making it a 1970s name.
What we can tell you about Taunya
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 Taunya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Tanyaworthy of praise; diminutive form of tatiana91 in the US (2017)
- Tawnyaa form of tawny
- Taniafairy queen; a form of Tatiana186 in the US (2017)
- Talyadew of god; variant of talia or natalia80 in the US (2017)
- Taniyaworthy of praise; a modern respelling of Tanya58 in the US (2017)
- Taliyadew of god or god has given dew13 in England and Wales (2025)
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