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Taya vs Taylour

American parents have registered 6,580 Tayas since 1880, against 526 Taylours. Taya is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taya Taylour

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 62 years and Taylour for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Taya Taylour
Total US births 6,580526
Most in one year 36443
Babies in 2025 76under 5
Estimated living today 6,500520
Median age today 2029
Peak year 19981996
Best rank 638th girls3,237th girls
Rank in 2025 2,368thunranked
First recorded 19611986
Girls / boys 6,580 / 0497 / 29

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 Taylours alive today are over 29; half the Tayas are over 20. That is 9 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: Taya and Taylour.