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Tailyn vs Taina

American parents have registered 2,757 Tainas since 1880, against 824 Tailyns. Taina is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tailyn against Taina, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tailyn Taina

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 70 years in which either name was published, Taina for 56 years and Tailyn for 14 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Tailyn Taina
Total US births 8242,757
Most in one year 56248
Babies in 2025 1720
Estimated living today 8202,700
Median age today 1125
Peak year 20112001
Best rank 3,014th girls911th girls
Rank in 2025 6,546th5,917th
First recorded 19961955
Girls / boys 786 / 382,757 / 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 Tainas alive today are over 25; half the Tailyns are over 11. That is 14 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.

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