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Tashi vs Tashia

American parents have registered 2,359 Tashias since 1880, against 628 Tashis. But in 2025 it was Tashi that was commoner, 13 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tashi against Tashia, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tashi Tashia

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 63 years in which either name was published, Tashia for 44 years and Tashi for 19 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Tashi Tashia
Total US births 6282,359
Most in one year 30111
Babies in 2025 13under 5
Estimated living today 6202,300
Median age today 2242
Peak year 19881985
Best rank 3,225th girls1,232nd girls
Rank in 2025 7,885thunranked
First recorded 19661962
Girls / boys 495 / 1332,359 / 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 Tashias alive today are over 42; half the Tashis are over 22. That is 20 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: Tashi and Tashia.