Tangie
Feminine
The tangerine is named after Tangier, and it reached Europe only in the nineteenth century. Small loose-skinned citrus fruit came west through Morocco and took the port's name in English, which is why the fruit has a place name and the orange does not.
How old is the name Tangie?
Tangie first appears in US birth records in 1951 — 74 years ago. The typical Tangie alive today was born around 1973, making them about 52 years old. About 1,100 people named Tangie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tangie most popular?
Tangie peaked in 1966, reaching #1600 nationally. See the whole 1966 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Tangie
Citrus fruit is almost entirely a set of hybrids, and the family tree has only been worked out recently. There are about three wild ancestors, the citron, the pomelo and the mandarin, and everything else in a fruit bowl is a cross between them or a cross between crosses: the sweet orange is a mandarin and a pomelo, the lemon is a citron and a sour orange, the grapefruit is a pomelo and a sweet orange. The tangerine is a mandarin, arriving in Europe by a route that gave it a name from a port rather than from a plant. So the fruit this name resembles is a variety of a wild species, named after a city in Morocco, and its resemblance to an American girl's name is a coincidence twice over.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source and no meaning for the name. It resembles the fruit and there is no reason to think it comes from it; the shape belongs to the American tradition of building names from a front syllable and a pet ending. Books that supply a meaning are working from the resemblance.
Pronouncing Tangie
TAN-jee
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The g is soft because of the following e, which is the ordinary English rule; a spelling with a y would leave it ambiguous.
Nicknames for Tangie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1951
- Most girls named
- 199452 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1600reached in 1966
- Change vs 2000
- −14.3%6 in 2003, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tangies among us
people named Tangie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Tangie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Short, warm and easy for a child to say and to write.
- Angie is a fully established short form sitting in the back half.
- Every sound in it is ordinary English.
- It will be connected to the fruit by everybody, which is a coincidence.
- Tangy and Tangi both exist and will be written instead.
- There is no meaning to give a child who asks.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tangies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Tangie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tangie in 2025?
- Tangie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Tangie with classmates?
- Tangie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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