Takai vs Takiyah
American parents have registered 1,973 Takiyahs since 1880, against 505 Takais. But in 2025 it was Takai that was commoner, 37 babies to 9.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Takai Takiyah
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 55 years in which either name was published, Takiyah for 46 years and Takai for 9 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.
Side by side
| Takai | Takiyah | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 505 | 1,973 |
| Most in one year | 37 | 88 |
| Babies in 2025 | 37 | 9 |
| Estimated living today | 500 | 1,900 |
| Median age today | 12 | 25 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 2005 |
| Best rank | 3,181st boys | 2,106th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,181st | 10,107th |
| First recorded | 1996 | 1971 |
| Girls / boys | 48 / 457 | 1,973 / 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 Takiyahs alive today are over 25; half the Takais are over 12. That is 13 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: Takai and Takiyah.