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Tae vs Taevion

American parents have registered 560 Taevions since 1880, against 554 Taes. Taevion is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tae against Taevion, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tae Taevion

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 31 years and Taevion for 23 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Tae Taevion
Total US births 554560
Most in one year 2845
Babies in 2025 1016
Estimated living today 540550
Median age today 2314
Peak year 20002009
Best rank 3,922nd boys2,702nd boys
Rank in 2025 7,679th5,608th
First recorded 19521995
Girls / boys 103 / 4510 / 560

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 Taevions are over 14. That is 9 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 Taevion.