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Tayla vs Taylan

American parents have registered 5,467 Taylas since 1880, against 1,258 Taylans. Tayla is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tayla Taylan

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 2023, when Tayla had 45 and Taylan had 42.

Side by side

  Tayla Taylan
Total US births 5,4671,258
Most in one year 28568
Babies in 2025 3430
Estimated living today 5,4001,200
Median age today 2014
Peak year 20062010
Best rank 926th girls2,579th boys
Rank in 2025 4,172nd4,539th
First recorded 19761991
Girls / boys 5,467 / 0359 / 899

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 Taylas alive today are over 20; half the Taylans are over 14. That is 6 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 Tayla Taylan
England and Wales 2,888766
France 105570
Scotland 297

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.

Compare something else

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