Meaning not yet researched.
Taya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 76 in 2025. Its best rank was #638 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #638 in 1998; #2,385 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Taya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,385 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #638.
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Taya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 76 girls in 2025. Peak: #638 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 364 (1998).
In 2025, 76 US girls were named Taya, making it the 2,385th most common girls’ name of the year, down 253 places from #2,132 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 90 girls named Taya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #638, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 364. For comparison, it was #977 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Taya in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 6 babies. In all, 6,580 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,304 babies named Taya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,375 US girls were named Taya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 234. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,148 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Taya ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #917 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Tai (4,937 babies since 1880), Taha (2,424 babies since 1880) and Tayah (1,344 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Taiya, Taye and Taia 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 English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Taiya (693), Taye (627), Taia (592), Tae (554), Tao (443), Taeya (368), Taiyo (313), Tayo (243), Ta (237), Tayia (170), Taeo (97), Tha (57), 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 Taya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 5 | #917 | #417 |
| Washington | 6 | #1,032 | #830 |
| California | 7 | #2,739 | #1,378 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #2,385 | — | — |
| 2024 | 90 | #2,132 | — | — |
| 2023 | 112 | #1,812 | — | — |
| 2022 | 109 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 2021 | 114 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 2020 | 142 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 2019 | 156 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 2018 | 146 | #1,505 | — | — |
| 2017 | 196 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 2016 | 234 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 2015 | 277 | #977 | — | — |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,069 | — | — |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,864 | — | — |
| 2012 | 135 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 2011 | 152 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 2010 | 235 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 2009 | 283 | #943 | — | — |
| 2008 | 186 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 2007 | 199 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 2006 | 213 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 2005 | 214 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 2004 | 249 | #964 | — | — |
| 2003 | 250 | #943 | — | — |
| 2002 | 242 | #930 | — | — |
| 2001 | 226 | #964 | — | — |
| 2000 | 242 | #907 | — | — |
| 1999 | 298 | #754 | — | — |
| 1998 | 364 | #638 | — | — |
| 1997 | 239 | #857 | — | — |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,958 | — | — |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,621 | — | — |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,574 | — | — |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,928 | — | — |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,218 | — | — |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,923 | — | — |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,219 | — | — |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,414 | — | — |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,716 | — | — |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,407 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,722 | — | — |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,423 | — | — |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,577 | — | — |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,192 | — | — |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,652 | — | — |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,733 | — | — |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,993 | — | — |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,386 | — | — |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,585 | — | — |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,300 | — | — |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,944 | — | — |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,977 | — | — |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,940 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,931 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,429 | — | — |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,072 | — | — |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,510 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,829 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,493 | — | — |
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).