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Taten vs Tatyana

American parents have registered 10,305 Tatyanas since 1880, against 590 Tatens. Tatyana is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taten against Tatyana, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taten Tatyana

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 57 years in which either name was published, Tatyana for 55 years and Taten for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Taten Tatyana
Total US births 59010,305
Most in one year 361,161
Babies in 2025 1218
Estimated living today 58010,000
Median age today 1626
Peak year 20071999
Best rank 3,135th boys270th girls
Rank in 2025 6,803rd6,325th
First recorded 19891964
Girls / boys 0 / 59010,305 / 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 Tatyanas alive today are over 26; half the Tatens are over 16. That is 10 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: Taten and Tatyana.