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Taji vs Tajuana

American parents have registered 1,090 Tajuanas since 1880, against 645 Tajis. But in 2025 it was Taji that was commoner, 10 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taji Tajuana

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 72 years in which either name was published, Tajuana for 36 years and Taji for 36 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Taji Tajuana
Total US births 6451,090
Most in one year 2461
Babies in 2025 10under 5
Estimated living today 6301,000
Median age today 2650
Peak year 19771972
Best rank 2,202nd boys1,526th girls
Rank in 2025 7,679thunranked
First recorded 19691953
Girls / boys 131 / 5141,090 / 0

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 Tajuanas alive today are over 50; half the Tajis are over 26. That is 24 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: Taji and Tajuana.