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Tauna vs Tausha

American parents have registered 1,369 Taushas since 1880, against 647 Taunas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tauna against Tausha, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tauna Tausha

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 53 years in which either name was published, Tausha for 32 years and Tauna for 21 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Tauna Tausha
Total US births 6471,369
Most in one year 2774
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5901,300
Median age today 5246
Peak year 19661975
Best rank 2,308th girls1,415th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19451964
Girls / boys 647 / 01,369 / 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 Taunas alive today are over 52; half the Taushas are over 46. That is 6 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: Tauna and Tausha.