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Tajay vs Tajh

American parents have registered 753 Tajhs since 1880, against 87 Tajays. Tajh is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tajay 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

Tajh has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1989 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Tajay had 5 and Tajh had 7.

Side by side

  Tajay Tajh
Total US births 87753
Most in one year 1579
Babies in 2025 under 512
Estimated living today 90740
Median age today 2225
Peak year 19971990
Best rank 5,288th boys1,238th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked6,803rd
First recorded 19971989
Girls / boys 10 / 770 / 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 Tajays are over 22. That is 3 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: Tajay and Tajh.