Tannia
Xanthosoma is a genus of flowering plants in the arum family, Araceae. The genus is native to tropical America but widely cultivated and naturalized in other tropical regions.
Meaning & Origin of Tannia
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Xanthosoma is a genus of flowering plants in the arum family, Araceae. The genus is native to tropical America but widely cultivated and naturalized in other tropical regions.
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Etymology
The Story of Tannia
Tannia first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1961, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1993: 20 births, good for #4,826 nationwide. About 30% of every Tannia on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Tannia last appeared in the published SSA data in 2015, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 392 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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About the name Tannia
Tannia is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1961 and has accumulated 392 births in the dataset. Tannia's peak popularity came in 1993 when it ranked #4,826. Use the chart and map above to compare Tannia'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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