Tanaka

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Tanaka: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Tanaka: Recorded every year since 2000, it reached #1,092 in 2003, and it stood at #2,921 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#1092highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#3262
2002	#4137
2003	#3594
2004	#2530
2005	#2682
2006	#1660
2007	#2233
2008	#2721
2009	#4564
2010	#3156
2011	#4764
2012	#4838
2019	#5591
2020	#5493
2022	#4645
2023	#3598

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 24 of the 25 years from 2000 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2000–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2000
First recorded at #3036 among boys in England and Wales in 2000 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2000–2024
Highest recorded position: #1092 among boys in England and Wales, in 2003 (recorded 2000–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2921 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Tanaka appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 2000, and has registered 193 births with the name.

Tanaka across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Tanaka's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#3036 (2000)	#1092 (2003)	#2921 (2024)	24 of 25	193 (2000–2024)	17 (2004)
England and Wales · Girls	#3262 (2001)	#1660 (2006)	#3598 (2023)	16 of 23	92 (2001–2023)	14 (2006)

Tanaka by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Tanaka in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000sbusiest	103	10 of 10	10
2010s	69	10 of 10	7
2020s	21	4 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Tanaka appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1092 in England and Wales in 2003.

Tanaka's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2964	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2270	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1551	15	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1981	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2721	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1596	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2233	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1756	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1660	14	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1469	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1534	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1110	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1092	16	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2000 and 2024, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,092, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 17 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Tamsyn · #1036, 25y
Tamzin · #139, 26y
Tanay · #1534, 25y
Tanaya · #1690, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Avrohom · #1092, 29y
Islam · #1092, 28y
Faatimah · #1093, 29y
Alarna · #1094, 29y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Maisie-Leigh · #1093, 16y
Tilly-Rose · #1094, 21y
Evelyn-Rose · #1095, 15y
Hartley · #1095, 19y

Tanaka and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Tanaka without appearing here.

Tanaka moved ahead of

Finlay Compare
In 2009 they stood at #4564 and #4564 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #3156 and #5707.
Maddison Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3036 and #3036 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1110 and #3651.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4107 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2921 and #5119.
Jade Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4107 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2921 and #5119.

Moved ahead of Tanaka

Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3262 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #4137 and #938.
Eabha Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1660 and #5061 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #2326.
Braxton Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1551 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #3300 and #1398.
Rory Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4764 and #5785 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #5591 and #4001.

Moved the opposite way to Tanaka

Rune Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Tanaka went from #1110 to #2921 while Rune went from #3651 to #1460.
Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Tanaka went from #2530 to #3598 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1169.
Aksel Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Tanaka went from #1469 to #2921 while Aksel went from #4052 to #1132.
Matheo Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Tanaka went from #1756 to #2921 while Matheo went from #4333 to #1517.

Moved the same way as Tanaka

Kelly Compare
Between 2001 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Tanaka went from #2587 to #4107 and Kelly from #1467 to #3523.
Brittany Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Tanaka went from #3262 to #4645 and Brittany from #871 to #3533.
Carmel Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Tanaka went from #3262 to #4645 and Carmel from #1520 to #3533.
Finley Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Tanaka went from #3262 to #4645 and Finley from #1728 to #3533.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1092 in England and Wales in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Tanaka

Tanaka at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Tanaka across 2 official records

Tanaka by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Tanaka appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Tanaka moved ahead of

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Tanaka at a glance

Tanaka across 2 official records

Tanaka by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Tanaka appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Tanaka and the names beside it

Tanaka moved ahead of

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