Given name
Tanmay
“one who is absorbed”
Tanmay is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “one who is absorbed.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “one who is absorbed.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tanmay through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 176
- 176 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #7,625 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,625 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 669 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tanmay’s family of names
Tanmay has a related form in Tanmae. Tanmay has a related form in Tanmai. Tanmay has a related form in Tanmaye.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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