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Tahiry vs Tahlia

American parents have registered 3,504 Tahlias since 1880, against 614 Tahirys. Tahlia is still ahead, with 121 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tahiry against Tahlia, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tahiry Tahlia

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, Tahlia for 49 years and Tahiry for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Tahiry Tahlia
Total US births 6143,504
Most in one year 140167
Babies in 2025 13121
Estimated living today 6103,500
Median age today 1013
Peak year 20142009
Best rank 1,552nd girls1,408th girls
Rank in 2025 7,885th1,692nd
First recorded 19951976
Girls / boys 614 / 03,504 / 0

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 Tahlias alive today are over 13; half the Tahirys are over 10. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Tahiry Tahlia
England and Wales 31,346
France 145100

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