Tahnee
Tahnee is a feminine given name and a variant of Tawny. Notable people with the name include:Tahnee Ahtone, Kiowa bedwork artist Tahnee Atkinson, Australian model Tahnee Robinson,, American former professional basketball player Tahnée Seagrave, British downhill mountain biker Tahnee Welch, American model and actress
- English
Meaning & Origin of Tahnee
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Tahnee is a feminine given name and a variant of Tawny. Notable people with the name include:Tahnee Ahtone, Kiowa bedwork artist Tahnee Atkinson, Australian model Tahnee Robinson,, American former professional basketball player Tahnée Seagrave, British downhill mountain biker Tahnee Welch, American model and actress
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Tahnee
Tahnee first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1967, with 17 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1985: 83 births, good for #1,483 nationwide. About 47% of every Tahnee on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Tahnee last appeared in the published SSA data in 2009, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 919 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Tahnee
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About the name Tahnee
Tahnee is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1967 and has accumulated 919 births in the dataset. Tahnee's peak popularity came in 1985 when it ranked #1,483. Use the chart and map above to compare Tahnee's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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