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Tajah vs Tajay

American parents have registered 934 Tajahs since 1880, against 87 Tajays. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tajah against Tajay, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tajah Tajay

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 35 years in which either name was published, Tajah for 33 years and Tajay for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Tajah Tajay
Total US births 93487
Most in one year 7215
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 92090
Median age today 2622
Peak year 19991997
Best rank 2,115th girls5,288th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19801997
Girls / boys 858 / 7610 / 77

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 Tajahs alive today are over 26; half the Tajays are over 22. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Tajah Tajay
England and Wales 2321

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