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Taylan vs Taytum

American parents have registered 4,618 Taytums since 1880, against 1,258 Taylans. Taytum is still ahead, with 445 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taylan against Taytum, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taylan Taytum

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 35 years in which either name was published, Taytum for 25 years and Taylan for 10 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Taylan Taytum
Total US births 1,2584,618
Most in one year 68476
Babies in 2025 30445
Estimated living today 1,2004,600
Median age today 145
Peak year 20102023
Best rank 2,579th boys679th girls
Rank in 2025 4,539th732nd
First recorded 19911992
Girls / boys 359 / 8993,997 / 621

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 Taylans alive today are over 14; half the Taytums are over 5. That is 9 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 Taylan Taytum
England and Wales 7663

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: Taylan and Taytum.