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Taylar vs Taytum

American parents have registered 4,618 Taytums since 1880, against 2,534 Taylars. Taytum is still ahead, with 445 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taylar 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 42 years in which either name was published, Taylar for 23 years and Taytum for 19 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Taylar Taytum
Total US births 2,5344,618
Most in one year 156476
Babies in 2025 under 5445
Estimated living today 2,5004,600
Median age today 255
Peak year 19982023
Best rank 1,228th girls679th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked732nd
First recorded 19841992
Girls / boys 2,507 / 273,997 / 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 Taylars alive today are over 25; half the Taytums are over 5. That is 20 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 Taylar Taytum
England and Wales 993

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: Taylar and Taytum.