Given name & surname
Tangi
“fire”·“dog”
Tangi is a masculine given name. It is used in Breton.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tangi is built from elements meaning “fire” and “dog”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tangi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 340
- 0 boys · 340 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 12 in 1995. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 27 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 354 as a first name in 2020; 121 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tangi’s family of names
In Breton usage, Tangi as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the French form Tanguy. In Greek usage, Tangi as a surname is a transliteration of Τάγγη.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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