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Taylah vs Taylin

American parents have registered 3,672 Taylins since 1880, against 672 Taylahs. Taylin is still ahead, with 134 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taylah against Taylin, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taylah Taylin

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

Taylin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1990 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Taylah had 8 and Taylin had 10.

Side by side

  Taylah Taylin
Total US births 6723,672
Most in one year 35240
Babies in 2025 13134
Estimated living today 6703,600
Median age today 1512
Peak year 20102011
Best rank 4,180th girls1,177th girls
Rank in 2025 7,885th2,751st
First recorded 19911990
Girls / boys 672 / 02,724 / 948

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 Taylahs alive today are over 15; half the Taylins are over 12. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Taylah Taylin
England and Wales 2764

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: Taylah and Taylin.