Tanzania · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Tanzania.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1968

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 40 recorded years as a table

Tanzania, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1968	3
1969	4
1970	5
1971	5
1972	12
1973	9
1974	7
1975	13
1976	10
1977	15
1978	13
1979	16
1980	6
1981	7
1982	8
1983	3
1984	5
1985	5
1986	8
1988	8
1989	6
1990	12
1991	19
1992	21
1993	17
1994	18
1995	11
1996	15
1997	17
1998	12
1999	16
2000	10
2001	13
2002	8
2003	7
2004	9
2005	6
2006	4
2007	5
2008	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Tanzania isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2008: 5
Rank in 2008: #17,504
How rare: 1 in 378,187 girls
Since 1968: 667

Tanzania was last recorded in 2008. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1992, at 21 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Tanzania doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.