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Taj vs Tajh

American parents have registered 6,290 Tajs since 1880, against 753 Tajhs. Taj is still ahead, with 123 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taj against Tajh, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taj Tajh

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 58 years in which either name was published, Taj for 56 years and Tajh for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Taj Tajh
Total US births 6,290753
Most in one year 21879
Babies in 2025 12312
Estimated living today 6,200740
Median age today 1725
Peak year 20151990
Best rank 1,016th boys1,238th boys
Rank in 2025 1,663rd6,803rd
First recorded 19651989
Girls / boys 571 / 5,7190 / 753

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 Tajhs alive today are over 25; half the Tajs are over 17. That is 8 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: Taj and Tajh.