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Taya vs Taysom

American parents have registered 6,580 Tayas since 1880, against 791 Taysoms. Taya is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taya Taysom

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 64 years and Taysom for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Taya Taysom
Total US births 6,580791
Most in one year 364119
Babies in 2025 7656
Estimated living today 6,500790
Median age today 204
Peak year 19982021
Best rank 638th girls1,496th boys
Rank in 2025 2,368th2,421st
First recorded 19612012
Girls / boys 6,580 / 07 / 784

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 Taysoms are over 4. That is 16 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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Taya and Taysom.