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Taina vs Taishmara

American parents have registered 2,757 Tainas since 1880, against 38 Taishmaras. Taina is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taina Taishmara

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 69 years and Taishmara for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Taina Taishmara
Total US births 2,75738
Most in one year 24838
Babies in 2025 20under 5
Estimated living today 2,70040
Median age today 258
Peak year 20012017
Best rank 911th girls3,919th girls
Rank in 2025 5,917thunranked
First recorded 19552017
Girls / boys 2,757 / 038 / 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 Taishmaras are over 8. That is 17 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: Taina and Taishmara.