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Taytum vs Tayven

American parents have registered 4,618 Taytums since 1880, against 748 Tayvens. Taytum is still ahead, with 445 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taytum Tayven

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

Taytum has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1992 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Taytum had 79 and Tayven had 63.

Side by side

  Taytum Tayven
Total US births 4,618748
Most in one year 47663
Babies in 2025 44519
Estimated living today 4,600740
Median age today 514
Peak year 20232007
Best rank 679th girls2,139th boys
Rank in 2025 732nd5,045th
First recorded 19921999
Girls / boys 3,997 / 62148 / 700

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 Tayvens alive today are over 14; half the Taytums are over 5. That is 9 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: Taytum and Tayven.