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Taya vs Tayanna

American parents have registered 6,580 Tayas since 1880, against 625 Tayannas. Taya is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taya Tayanna

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

Taya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1961 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1995, when Taya had 48 and Tayanna had 18.

Side by side

  Taya Tayanna
Total US births 6,580625
Most in one year 36440
Babies in 2025 7610
Estimated living today 6,500620
Median age today 2018
Peak year 19982021
Best rank 638th girls3,735th girls
Rank in 2025 2,368th9,457th
First recorded 19611984
Girls / boys 6,580 / 0625 / 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 Tayas alive today are over 20; half the Tayannas are over 18. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Taya Tayanna
England and Wales 1,5649
France 9560

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: Taya and Tayanna.