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Taja vs Tajah

American parents have registered 1,916 Tajas since 1880, against 934 Tajahs. Taja is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taja Tajah

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 56 years in which either name was published, Taja for 52 years and Tajah for 4 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Taja Tajah
Total US births 1,916934
Most in one year 25972
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 1,900920
Median age today 3026
Peak year 19881999
Best rank 720th girls2,115th girls
Rank in 2025 13,208thunranked
First recorded 19681980
Girls / boys 1,888 / 28858 / 76

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 Tajas alive today are over 30; half the Tajahs are over 26. That is 4 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Taja Tajah
England and Wales 7723

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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Related comparisons

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