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Taylin vs Tayna

American parents have registered 3,672 Taylins since 1880, against 874 Taynas. Taylin is still ahead, with 134 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taylin Tayna

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 67 years in which either name was published, Taylin for 35 years and Tayna for 32 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Taylin Tayna
Total US births 3,672874
Most in one year 24058
Babies in 2025 134under 5
Estimated living today 3,600830
Median age today 1248
Peak year 20111974
Best rank 1,177th girls1,616th girls
Rank in 2025 2,751stunranked
First recorded 19901958
Girls / boys 2,724 / 948874 / 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 Taynas alive today are over 48; half the Taylins are over 12. That is 36 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: Taylin and Tayna.