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Taya vs Taylin

American parents have registered 6,580 Tayas since 1880, against 3,672 Taylins. But in 2025 it was Taylin that was commoner, 134 babies to 76.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taya Taylin

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 65 years in which either name was published, Taya for 55 years and Taylin for 10 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Taya Taylin
Total US births 6,5803,672
Most in one year 364240
Babies in 2025 76134
Estimated living today 6,5003,600
Median age today 2012
Peak year 19982011
Best rank 638th girls1,177th girls
Rank in 2025 2,368th2,751st
First recorded 19611990
Girls / boys 6,580 / 02,724 / 948

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 Taylins are over 12. That is 8 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 Taylin
England and Wales 1,5644

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 Taylin.