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Taelyn vs Taevion

American parents have registered 2,522 Taelyns since 1880, against 560 Taevions. Taelyn is still ahead, with 85 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taelyn 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

Taelyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1995 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1995, when Taelyn had 5 and Taevion had 5.

Side by side

  Taelyn Taevion
Total US births 2,522560
Most in one year 14845
Babies in 2025 8516
Estimated living today 2,500550
Median age today 1114
Peak year 20102009
Best rank 1,556th girls2,702nd boys
Rank in 2025 2,542nd5,608th
First recorded 19951995
Girls / boys 2,267 / 2550 / 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 Taevions alive today are over 14; half the Taelyns are over 11. That is 3 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: Taelyn and Taevion.