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Taya vs Tayveon

American parents have registered 6,580 Tayas since 1880, against 605 Tayveons. Taya is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taya Tayveon

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 2013, when Taya had 109 and Tayveon had 27.

Side by side

  Taya Tayveon
Total US births 6,580605
Most in one year 36439
Babies in 2025 769
Estimated living today 6,500600
Median age today 2016
Peak year 19982004
Best rank 638th girls2,697th boys
Rank in 2025 2,368th8,243rd
First recorded 19611996
Girls / boys 6,580 / 00 / 605

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 Tayveons are over 16. That is 4 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 Tayveon.