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Tashi vs Tasia

American parents have registered 4,186 Tasias since 1880, against 628 Tashis. But in 2025 it was Tashi that was commoner, 13 babies to 11.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tashi against Tasia, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tashi Tasia

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 64 years in which either name was published, Tasia for 59 years and Tashi for 5 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Tashi Tasia
Total US births 6284,186
Most in one year 30341
Babies in 2025 1311
Estimated living today 6204,100
Median age today 2229
Peak year 19881985
Best rank 3,225th girls572nd girls
Rank in 2025 7,885th8,860th
First recorded 19661925
Girls / boys 495 / 1334,186 / 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 Tasias alive today are over 29; half the Tashis are over 22. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tashi Tasia
England and Wales 3190

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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