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Tashi vs Tashina

American parents have registered 1,758 Tashinas 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 Tashina, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tashi Tashina

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 56 years in which either name was published, Tashina for 32 years and Tashi for 24 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Tashi Tashina
Total US births 6281,758
Most in one year 30168
Babies in 2025 13under 5
Estimated living today 6201,700
Median age today 2239
Peak year 19881981
Best rank 3,225th girls893rd girls
Rank in 2025 7,885thunranked
First recorded 19661971
Girls / boys 495 / 1331,758 / 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 Tashinas alive today are over 39; half the Tashis are over 22. That is 17 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 Tashina.