Tanzania is a female first name.
Recently, the name Tanzania has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Tanzania. That means that a girl named Tanzania is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Tanzania.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Tanzania. Girls named Tanzania have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,797 Tanzania ranked higher than ever before in 1992. By comparison, there have been 103 years in which the first name Tanzania has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Tanzania only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Tanzania was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Tanzania is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 57 Americans in total bear this name. And these 57 women are located in only five states: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and New York (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Tanzania and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Tanzania in relation to it’s female population is Florida. And yet even there, only one in 491,023 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Tanzania.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. Because: 6.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With eight letters, the name Tanzania is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all girls' names that begin with a T, this first letter is thus much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the girls’ names starting with T is Teresa.
If your name is Tanzania and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Tanzania, you can simply say:
Tiger
Apple
Nut
Zebra
Apple
Nut
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Tanzania
Tanzania
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
A
N
Z
A
N
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
A
N
Z
A
N
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Tanzania sounds like this:
