Tai vs Taimi
American parents have registered 4,937 Tais since 1880, against 172 Taimis. Tai is still ahead, with 64 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Tai Taimi
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 77 years in which either name was published, Tai for 61 years and Taimi for 16 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.
Side by side
| Tai | Taimi | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 4,937 | 172 |
| Most in one year | 199 | 17 |
| Babies in 2025 | 64 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 4,800 | 30 |
| Median age today | 24 | 59 |
| Peak year | 2004 | 1919 |
| Best rank | 1,172nd boys | 2,063rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,516th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1922 | 1911 |
| Girls / boys | 1,815 / 3,122 | 172 / 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 Taimis alive today are over 59; half the Tais are over 24. That is 35 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: Tai and Taimi.