Meaning not yet researched.
Tai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 53 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,154 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,154 in 2003; #2,536 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Tai in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,536 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,154.
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Tai: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 53 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,154 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 133 (2004).
In 2025, 53 US boys were named Tai, making it the 2,536th most common boys’ name of the year, down 123 places from #2,413 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 58 boys named Tai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,154, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 133, in 2004. For comparison, it was #2,294 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Tai, making it the 9,397th most common girls’ name of the year, down 506 places from #8,891 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 12 girls named Tai in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #947, reached in 1980. That year also had the most girls given the name: 159. For comparison, it was #7,575 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tai in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1922 with 5 babies. In all, 4,937 US babies have been given the name, 37% of them girls and 63% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,404 babies named Tai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 542 US boys were named Tai; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,228 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tai ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,739 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Taya (6,580 babies since 1880), Taha (2,424 babies since 1880) and Thao (1,237 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Thai are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Thai (1,426).
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 Tai 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #1,739 | #2,091 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,809 | #1,367 |
| California | 6 | #2,434 | #1,851 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,397 | 53 | #2,536 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,891 | 58 | #2,413 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,217 | 49 | #2,687 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,254 | 55 | #2,513 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,223 | 60 | #2,320 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,533 | 59 | #2,320 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,095 | 46 | #2,760 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,481 | 49 | #2,612 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,064 | 53 | #2,443 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,563 | 60 | #2,253 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,575 | 58 | #2,294 |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,014 | 70 | #2,039 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,924 | 71 | #1,961 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,177 | 72 | #1,980 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,708 | 89 | #1,686 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,656 | 71 | #1,971 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,291 | 90 | #1,730 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,419 | 84 | #1,791 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,285 | 103 | #1,535 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,676 | 121 | #1,348 |
| 2005 | 36 | #4,023 | 107 | #1,400 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,620 | 133 | #1,177 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,867 | 131 | #1,154 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,062 | 88 | #1,458 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,309 | 95 | #1,356 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,970 | 101 | #1,288 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,242 | 96 | #1,281 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,967 | 65 | #1,618 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,931 | 50 | #1,881 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,717 | 47 | #1,928 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,500 | 44 | #1,951 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,525 | 53 | #1,714 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,499 | 44 | #1,898 |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,031 | 42 | #1,953 |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,351 | 39 | #1,977 |
| 1990 | 38 | #3,017 | 36 | #2,081 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,774 | 29 | #2,346 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,791 | 40 | #1,766 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,847 | 32 | #1,972 |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,415 | 42 | #1,584 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,590 | 26 | #2,167 |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,833 | 38 | #1,604 |
| 1983 | 79 | #1,473 | 37 | #1,626 |
| 1982 | 88 | #1,395 | 37 | #1,648 |
| 1981 | 126 | #1,108 | 35 | #1,688 |
| 1980 | 159 | #947 | 40 | #1,543 |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,145 | 36 | #1,625 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,850 | 21 | #2,267 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,593 | 31 | #1,739 |
| 1976 | 34 | #2,427 | 36 | #1,534 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,566 | 16 | #2,628 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,197 | 15 | #2,658 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,339 | 12 | #3,001 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,971 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,553 | 13 | #2,798 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,167 | 10 | #3,257 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,366 | 7 | #3,902 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,493 | — | — |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,561 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,504 | — | — |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,878 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,879 |
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).