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Tayla vs Tayton

American parents have registered 5,467 Taylas since 1880, against 1,133 Taytons. Tayla is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tayla Tayton

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 Tayton had 24.

Side by side

  Tayla Tayton
Total US births 5,4671,133
Most in one year 28581
Babies in 2025 3412
Estimated living today 5,4001,100
Median age today 2016
Peak year 20062005
Best rank 926th girls1,659th boys
Rank in 2025 4,172nd6,803rd
First recorded 19761993
Girls / boys 5,467 / 027 / 1,106

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 Taytons are over 16. That is 4 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 Tayton.