Meaning not yet researched.
Taja: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #724 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #724 in 1988; #14,748 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Taja in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#14,748 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #724.
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Taja: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #724 in 1988 · most girls in one year: 259 (1988).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Taja, making it the 14,748th most common girls’ name of the year, up 320 places from #15,068 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 6 girls named Taja in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #724, reached in 1988. That year also had the most girls given the name: 259. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Taja in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 8 babies. In all, 1,916 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 692 babies named Taja.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 62 US girls were named Taja; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 9. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tajah (934 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Taija, Tajae and Taijah 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Taija (822), Tajae (480), Taijah (386), Tajai (322), Tahja (248), Tahjae (243), Tayja (172), Taeja (127), Tayjah (104), Taejah (102), Tahjai (98), Tajay (87), and more.
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 Taja in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,748 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,068 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,314 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,425 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,997 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,699 | — | — |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,656 | — | — |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,618 | — | — |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,691 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,076 | — | — |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,178 | — | — |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,113 | — | — |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,537 | — | — |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,243 | — | — |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,522 | — | — |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,777 | — | — |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,795 | — | — |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,329 | — | — |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,640 | — | — |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,562 | — | — |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,921 | — | — |
| 2002 | 71 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,355 | 8 | #8,223 |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,234 | 5 | #11,917 |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,604 | 9 | #6,553 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,656 | — | — |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,528 | — | — |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,607 | — | — |
| 1991 | 63 | #2,131 | — | — |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 1989 | 127 | #1,248 | 6 | #7,796 |
| 1988 | 259 | #724 | — | — |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,161 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,541 | — | — |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,633 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,728 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,952 | — | — |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,320 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,968 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,868 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,387 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,519 | — | — |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,408 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,133 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,465 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,199 | — | — |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,138 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,061 | — | — |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,085 | — | — |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,462 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,014 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,585 | — | — |
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).