Meaning not yet researched.
Taraji: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #680 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #680 in 2010; #7,853 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Taraji in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,853 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #680.
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Taraji: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #680 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 423 (2010).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Taraji, making it the 7,853rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,569 places from #4,284 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 34 girls named Taraji in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #680, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 423. For comparison, it was #1,111 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Taraji in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 9 babies. In all, 2,814 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,151 babies named Taraji.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 652 US girls were named Taraji; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 147. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Tarahji, Tarajii and Tarajee 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tarahji (116), Tarajii (36), Tarajee (18).
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 Taraji 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 | 14 | #7,853 | — | — |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,284 | — | — |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,266 | — | — |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,284 | — | — |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,065 | — | — |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,745 | — | — |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,504 | — | — |
| 2018 | 89 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 2017 | 114 | #1,823 | — | — |
| 2016 | 147 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 2015 | 233 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 2014 | 200 | #1,226 | 6 | #11,943 |
| 2013 | 192 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 2012 | 311 | #858 | 5 | #13,983 |
| 2011 | 339 | #800 | 7 | #10,647 |
| 2010 | 423 | #680 | 14 | #6,328 |
| 2009 | 314 | #878 | 13 | #6,765 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,125 | — | — |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,528 | — | — |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,354 | 5 | #13,787 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,372 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,010 | — | — |
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).