Taft
Taft is a boy's name that peaked in 1908, when it was the 272nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 7,679th. About 850 Tafts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Taft
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,544
- Estimated living today
- 850
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 1908
- Best rank
- 272nd
- Rank in 2025
- 7,679th
- First recorded
- 1907
How old the living Tafts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,544 babies given the name since 1907, about 850 are alive — 55 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Tafts
- Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994)President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
People named Taft with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Taft is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Taft is most concentrated in Utah (68.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1908
The most popular boys’ names the year Taft peaked:
Related names
Taft against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.