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Tasha vs Tashay

American parents have registered 35,634 Tashas since 1880, against 537 Tashays. Tasha is still ahead, with 14 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tasha against Tashay, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tasha Tashay

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

Tasha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1947 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Tasha had 41 and Tashay had 8.

Side by side

  Tasha Tashay
Total US births 35,634537
Most in one year 2,27735
Babies in 2025 14under 5
Estimated living today 34,000530
Median age today 4331
Peak year 19801994
Best rank 130th girls3,234th girls
Rank in 2025 7,491stunranked
First recorded 19471972
Girls / boys 35,528 / 106537 / 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 Tashas alive today are over 43; half the Tashays are over 31. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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