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Tatiana vs Tatsuko

American parents have registered 35,269 Tatianas since 1880, against 39 Tatsukos. Tatiana is still ahead, with 216 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tatiana against Tatsuko, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tatiana Tatsuko

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 91 years in which either name was published, Tatiana for 88 years and Tatsuko for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Tatiana Tatsuko
Total US births 35,26939
Most in one year 1,46614
Babies in 2025 216under 5
Estimated living today 35,0001
Median age today 2597
Peak year 19991916
Best rank 213th girls2,246th girls
Rank in 2025 1,104thunranked
First recorded 19151916
Girls / boys 35,234 / 3539 / 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 Tatsukos alive today are over 97; half the Tatianas are over 25. That is 72 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: Tatiana and Tatsuko.