Taja vs Tajuan
American parents have registered 1,916 Tajas since 1880, against 672 Tajuans. Taja is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Taja Tajuan
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 57 years in which either name was published, Taja for 44 years and Tajuan for 13 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1968–1973 Taja ahead
- 1974–1983 Tajuan ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1987–2025 Taja ahead, apart from 2 short spells
7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Taja | Tajuan | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,916 | 672 |
| Most in one year | 259 | 32 |
| Babies in 2025 | 6 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,900 | 650 |
| Median age today | 30 | 29 |
| Peak year | 1988 | 1999 |
| Best rank | 720th girls | 2,665th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 13,208th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1968 | 1972 |
| Girls / boys | 1,888 / 28 | 7 / 665 |
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.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Taja and Tajuan.