Meaning not yet researched.
Tahj: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 112 in 2025. Its best rank was #772 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #772 in 1998; #1,544 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Tahj in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,544 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #772.
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Tahj: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 112 boys in 2025. Peak: #772 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 204 (1998).
In 2025, 112 US boys were named Tahj, making it the 1,544th most common boys’ name of the year, down 122 places from #1,422 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 130 boys named Tahj in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #772, reached in 1998. That year also had the most boys given the name: 204. For comparison, it was #1,302 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tahj in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 37 babies. In all, 4,075 US babies have been given the name, 3.3% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,321 babies named Tahj.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,409 US boys were named Tahj; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 184. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,251 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tahj ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #608 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Taj (6,290 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tahj in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 5 | #608 | — |
| Louisiana | 7 | #657 | #457 |
| Maryland | 7 | #688 | #574 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #865 | — |
| Florida | 16 | #906 | #832 |
| Virginia | 7 | #955 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,261 | #973 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,448 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,547 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,006 | 112 | #1,544 |
| 2024 | — | — | 130 | #1,422 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,990 | 140 | #1,357 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,315 | 141 | #1,340 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,331 | 157 | #1,229 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,258 | 184 | #1,083 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,660 | 155 | #1,230 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,863 | 132 | #1,356 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,727 | 133 | #1,347 |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,026 | 125 | #1,410 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,216 | 137 | #1,302 |
| 2014 | — | — | 129 | #1,343 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,981 | 132 | #1,313 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,242 | 105 | #1,534 |
| 2011 | — | — | 124 | #1,363 |
| 2010 | — | — | 109 | #1,500 |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,054 | 135 | #1,302 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,271 | 87 | #1,751 |
| 2007 | — | — | 83 | #1,780 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,734 | 71 | #1,918 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,341 | 73 | #1,798 |
| 2004 | — | — | 112 | #1,324 |
| 2003 | — | — | 139 | #1,109 |
| 2002 | — | — | 132 | #1,111 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,684 | 131 | #1,094 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,684 | 122 | #1,140 |
| 1999 | — | — | 175 | #866 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,487 | 204 | #772 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,524 | 121 | #1,056 |
| 1996 | — | — | 27 | #2,823 |
| 1995 | — | — | 27 | #2,753 |
| 1994 | — | — | 22 | #3,200 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,236 |
| 1992 | — | — | 27 | #2,660 |
| 1991 | — | — | 22 | #2,975 |
| 1990 | — | — | 26 | #2,619 |
| 1989 | — | — | 37 | #1,989 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).