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Taysia vs Taytum

American parents have registered 4,618 Taytums since 1880, against 526 Taysias. Taytum is still ahead, with 445 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taysia 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 41 years in which either name was published, Taytum for 27 years and Taysia for 14 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Taysia Taytum
Total US births 5264,618
Most in one year 37476
Babies in 2025 under 5445
Estimated living today 5204,600
Median age today 235
Peak year 20002023
Best rank 3,527th girls679th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked732nd
First recorded 19841992
Girls / boys 526 / 03,997 / 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 Taysias alive today are over 23; half the Taytums are over 5. That is 18 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 Taysia Taytum
England and Wales 133

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: Taysia and Taytum.