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Taelor vs Taevon

American parents have registered 2,437 Taelors since 1880, against 711 Taevons. Taelor is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taelor Taevon

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 41 years in which either name was published, Taelor for 37 years and Taevon for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Taelor Taevon
Total US births 2,437711
Most in one year 14137
Babies in 2025 129
Estimated living today 2,400700
Median age today 2519
Peak year 19992005
Best rank 1,349th girls2,846th boys
Rank in 2025 8,362nd8,243rd
First recorded 19831989
Girls / boys 2,247 / 1900 / 711

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 Taelors alive today are over 25; half the Taevons are over 19. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Taelor Taevon
England and Wales 163

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

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