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Taye vs Tayla

American parents have registered 5,467 Taylas since 1880, against 627 Tayes. Tayla is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taye against Tayla, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taye Tayla

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

Tayla has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1976 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Taye had 59 and Tayla had 175.

Side by side

  Taye Tayla
Total US births 6275,467
Most in one year 59285
Babies in 2025 734
Estimated living today 6205,400
Median age today 2020
Peak year 20042006
Best rank 2,193rd boys926th girls
Rank in 2025 9,714th4,172nd
First recorded 19981976
Girls / boys 48 / 5795,467 / 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.

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 Taye Tayla
England and Wales 2662,888

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: Taye and Tayla.