Meaning not yet researched.
Taj: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 100 in 2025. Its best rank was #956 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #956 in 1998; #1,667 in 2025. About 81% of babies named Taj in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,667 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #956.
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Taj: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 100 boys in 2025. Peak: #956 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 200 (2015).
In 2025, 100 US boys were named Taj, making it the 1,667th most common boys’ name of the year, down 209 places from #1,458 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 125 boys named Taj in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #956, reached in 1998. The most boys given the name in a single year was 200, in 2015. For comparison, it was #1,017 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 23 US girls were named Taj, making it the 5,542nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 778 places from #4,764 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 29 girls named Taj in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,137, reached in 1973. The most girls given the name in a single year was 29, in 2024. For comparison, it was #6,953 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Taj in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1965 with 5 babies. In all, 6,290 US babies have been given the name, 9.1% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,861 babies named Taj.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,482 US boys were named Taj; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 171. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,081 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Taj ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #1,167 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tahj (4,075 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tajh, Taje and Tahje 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: Tajh (753), Taje (224), Tahje (120), Taaj (95), Tahaj (34), Taij (11), Thaj (5).
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 Taj 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,167 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,290 | #1,355 |
| California | 13 | #1,425 | #956 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,542 | 100 | #1,667 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,764 | 125 | #1,458 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,139 | 124 | #1,463 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,989 | 143 | #1,320 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,550 | 160 | #1,212 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,193 | 170 | #1,148 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,990 | 163 | #1,185 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,214 | 171 | #1,133 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,509 | 159 | #1,180 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,044 | 167 | #1,155 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,953 | 200 | #1,017 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,471 | 143 | #1,256 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,108 | 156 | #1,161 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,342 | 173 | #1,083 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,156 | 189 | #1,019 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,332 | 197 | #995 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,339 | 191 | #1,022 |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,015 | 167 | #1,104 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,543 | 149 | #1,187 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,329 | 150 | #1,140 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,881 | 169 | #1,007 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,204 | 129 | #1,195 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,227 | 151 | #1,040 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,073 | 126 | #1,137 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,027 | 128 | #1,113 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,096 | 122 | #1,141 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,247 | 128 | #1,067 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,040 | 146 | #956 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,136 | 111 | #1,133 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,447 | 80 | #1,356 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,661 | 72 | #1,404 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,553 | 79 | #1,320 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,250 | 75 | #1,320 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,372 | 56 | #1,596 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,269 | 91 | #1,160 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,997 | 64 | #1,407 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,584 | 35 | #2,064 |
| 1988 | — | — | 32 | #2,030 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,547 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,115 | 27 | #2,150 |
| 1985 | — | — | 29 | #2,009 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,041 | 39 | #1,579 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,951 | 31 | #1,814 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,359 | 40 | #1,561 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,967 | 39 | #1,574 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,329 | 43 | #1,470 |
| 1979 | — | — | 42 | #1,463 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,559 | 56 | #1,199 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,331 | 67 | #1,062 |
| 1976 | — | — | 72 | #988 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,401 | 61 | #1,081 |
| 1974 | — | — | 43 | #1,306 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,137 | 54 | #1,122 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,465 | 26 | #1,763 |
| 1971 | — | — | 18 | #2,273 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,170 | 11 | #3,048 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,560 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,409 | — | — |
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).