Taija vs Taisha

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Taija Taisha

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 60 years in which either name was published, Taisha for 51 years and Taija for 9 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

• 1966–1997 Taisha ahead
• 1998–2001 Taija ahead
• 2002 Taisha ahead
• 2003 Taija ahead
• 2004–2007 Taisha ahead
• 2008 Taija ahead
• 2009–2013 Taisha ahead
• 2014 Taija ahead
• 2015–2016 Taisha ahead
• 2017–2018 Taija ahead
• 2019–2025 Taisha ahead

Side by side

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 Taishas alive today are over 38; half the Taijas are over 26. That is 12 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.

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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