Tania

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

Creative spelling (Italian) of Tanja ^[1]

Related Names

See Tanja

Further Information

Namesakes

Karen ('Tanne' / 'Tania') Christentze Blixen, Danish author (1885 - 1962) - In her case, Tanne was her childhood nickname, probably because she mispronounced her name Karen Christentze, and later she was called Tania after the fairy queen in Shakespeare's Midsummernight Dream (Titania).

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[2]		663	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[3]		469	558	0	0
Norway[4]		80	143	0	0
Finland[5]		n.a.	204	n.a	1
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[3][2][4][5]:

Sources: ^{[3] [2] [4] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
2. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi