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Tayla vs Taylynn

American parents have registered 5,467 Taylas since 1880, against 1,415 Taylynns. But in 2025 it was Taylynn that was commoner, 57 babies to 34.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tayla Taylynn

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 49 years in which either name was published, Tayla for 45 years and Taylynn for 4 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Tayla Taylynn
Total US births 5,4671,415
Most in one year 28591
Babies in 2025 3457
Estimated living today 5,4001,400
Median age today 2010
Peak year 20062012
Best rank 926th girls2,095th girls
Rank in 2025 4,172nd2,933rd
First recorded 19761993
Girls / boys 5,467 / 01,415 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Taylas alive today are over 20; half the Taylynns are over 10. That is 10 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: Tayla and Taylynn.