Given name · also Latin
Tanush
Tanush is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Albanian.
Original LatinAthanasius
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Tanush comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tanush through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 491
- 491 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 39 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #7,626 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −18%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,626 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 18.1% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 39 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 416 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.
Tanush’s family of names
Tanush shares an earlier linguistic root with THANAS. Tanush has a conventional equivalent in the English form Athanasius. Tanush was borrowed from the Latin form Athanasius.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Tanush has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
2 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tanush
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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