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Taylor vs Taysia

American parents have registered 443,686 Taylors since 1880, against 526 Taysias. Taylor is still ahead, with 1,170 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taylor Taysia

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 2024, when Taylor had 1,291 and Taysia had 7.

Side by side

  Taylor Taysia
Total US births 443,686526
Most in one year 28,95837
Babies in 2025 1,170under 5
Estimated living today 431,000520
Median age today 2823
Peak year 19932000
Best rank 7th girls3,527th girls
Rank in 2025 403rdunranked
First recorded 18801984
Girls / boys 330,145 / 113,541526 / 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 Taylors alive today are over 28; half the Taysias are over 23. That is 5 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 Taylor Taysia
England and Wales 21,84113
France 1,9205

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 Taysia.