Tage vs Taggart
American parents have registered 672 Taggarts since 1880, against 616 Tages. But in 2025 it was Tage that was commoner, 36 babies to 9.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Tage Taggart
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 50 years in which either name was published, Taggart for 33 years and Tage for 17 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.
- 1964–1993 Taggart ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2003–2005 Tage ahead
- 2011–2016 Taggart ahead
- 2017–2025 Tage ahead, apart from one short spell
12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Tage | Taggart | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 616 | 672 |
| Most in one year | 37 | 35 |
| Babies in 2025 | 36 | 9 |
| Estimated living today | 610 | 660 |
| Median age today | 15 | 18 |
| Peak year | 2007 | 2013 |
| Best rank | 3,090th boys | 3,122nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,240th | 8,243rd |
| First recorded | 1970 | 1964 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 616 | 0 / 672 |
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 Taggarts alive today are over 18; half the Tages are over 15. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tage and Taggart.