Tanja

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Таня (Tanya) a Russian pet form of Татьяна (Tatyana) (see Tatiana) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

Tania
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Tanía
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic
Tanja
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Tannia
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Swedish
Tanya
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

See also Taina, Tanne

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Tanjuson Faroe Islands
Tönjuson Iceland

Female

Tanjudóttir Faroe Islands
Tönjudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Tanja
Genitive: Tanjas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Tanja
Accusative: Tanju
Dative: Tanju
Genitive: Tanju
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Tanja
Genitive: Tanjan
Partitive: Tanjaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Tanja
Accusative: Tönju
Dative: Tönju
Genitive: Tönju
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Tanja
Genitive: Tanjas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Tanja
Genitive: Tanjas

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

13 June

Finland Finland

13 October

Norway Norway

13 June

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

13 October

Sweden Sweden

8 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 320 people were named Tanja (percentage of first or only given name: 82 %) [10]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
12393
n.a.
12393 0 0
Denmark Denmark[12]
5905
n.a.
5905
n.a.
0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[13]
2128 2672 2128 2669 0 3
Iceland Iceland[14]
148 184
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
41 51
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
1375
n.a.
1375
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: 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

Name statistics for Tanja (f) Sources: [13][12][16][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Tanja (f) Sources: [17]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Tanja (f)


References

  1. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  17. details see Name Statistic tables