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Taylor vs Taysha

American parents have registered 443,686 Taylors since 1880, against 692 Tayshas. Taylor is still ahead, with 1,170 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taylor against Taysha, 1880 to 2025 0 8k 16k 24k 32k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taylor Taysha

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

Taylor has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1972, when Taylor had 148 and Taysha had 6.

Side by side

  Taylor Taysha
Total US births 443,686692
Most in one year 28,95833
Babies in 2025 1,170under 5
Estimated living today 431,000680
Median age today 2829
Peak year 19931992
Best rank 7th girls3,343rd girls
Rank in 2025 403rdunranked
First recorded 18801971
Girls / boys 330,145 / 113,541692 / 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.

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 Taylor Taysha
England and Wales 21,84112
France 1,92010

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: Taylor and Taysha.