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Tae vs Taelynn

American parents have registered 1,824 Taelynns since 1880, against 554 Taes. Taelynn is still ahead, with 94 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tae against Taelynn, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tae Taelynn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 54 years in which either name was published, Tae for 32 years and Taelynn for 22 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tae Taelynn
Total US births 5541,824
Most in one year 28124
Babies in 2025 1094
Estimated living today 5401,800
Median age today 238
Peak year 20002019
Best rank 3,922nd boys1,687th girls
Rank in 2025 7,679th2,117th
First recorded 19521999
Girls / boys 103 / 4511,808 / 16

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Taes alive today are over 23; half the Taelynns are over 8. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tae and Taelynn.