Taj
#5,410 for girls in 2025, 23 births · #1,663 for boys in 2025, 100 births
Given to boys 90.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 146 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,719since 1969
Taj over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,410 | 23 | #1,663 | 100 |
| 2024 | #4,669 | 29 | #1,448 | 125 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | #1,458 | 124 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #1,314 | 143 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 | #1,207 | 160 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | #1,144 | 170 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | #1,182 | 163 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #1,128 | 171 |
| 2017 | #6,287 | 19 | #1,175 | 159 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | #1,149 | 167 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | #1,016 | 200 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #1,252 | 143 |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 | #1,155 | 156 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #1,081 | 173 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | #1,017 | 189 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #995 | 197 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #1,020 | 191 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #1,100 | 167 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #1,182 | 149 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #1,137 | 150 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #1,005 | 169 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | #1,191 | 129 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #1,039 | 151 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #1,130 | 126 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #1,110 | 128 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | #1,137 | 122 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #1,063 | 128 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | #953 | 146 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | #1,130 | 111 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #1,347 | 80 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #1,393 | 72 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #1,312 | 79 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #1,313 | 75 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #1,572 | 56 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | #1,155 | 91 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #1,395 | 64 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #2,027 | 35 |
| 1988 | — | #1,989 | 32 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,468 | 22 | |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | — | #1,975 | 29 | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #1,556 | 39 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | #1,787 | 31 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #1,539 | 40 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #1,548 | 39 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | #1,449 | 43 |
| 1979 | — | #1,435 | 42 | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | #1,186 | 56 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #1,054 | 67 |
| 1976 | — | #977 | 72 | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #1,065 | 61 |
| 1974 | — | #1,290 | 43 | |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 | #1,108 | 54 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #1,721 | 26 |
| 1971 | — | #2,203 | 18 | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | — | #3,314 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Taj! It came in at #3,314, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1970, when fewer than 12 boys a year got the name.
Where Taj is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Virginia#482 · 1 in 3,968
- Maryland#545 · 1 in 4,748
- New York#557 · 1 in 5,242
- Louisiana#630 · 1 in 4,539
- Washington#688 · 1 in 6,889
Best ever in a state: #146 in Hawaii, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | #482 | 10 | 1 in 3,968 |
| Maryland | #545 | 6 | 1 in 4,748 |
| New York | #557 | 22 | 1 in 5,242 |
| Louisiana | #630 | 6 | 1 in 4,539 |
| Washington | #688 | 5 | 1 in 6,889 |
| California | #761 | 24 | 1 in 10,138 |
| Michigan | #804 | 6 | 1 in 9,949 |
| Pennsylvania | #888 | 5 | 1 in 13,343 |
| Ohio | #899 | 5 | 1 in 13,996 |
| Florida | #1,084 | 6 | 1 in 14,448 |
| Texas | #1,650 | 5 | 1 in 32,122 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Taj
- 215 spots since 2024 (#1,448 → #1,663)
- 519 spots since 2020 (#1,144 → #1,663)
- 647 spots since 2015 (#1,016 → #1,663)
- Biggest jump: 177 spots in 1998 (#1,130 → #953)
- Biggest drop: 110 spots in 1999 (#953 → #1,063)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1998 at #953 (146 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · 1976–2010
- Highest: 1 in 9,584 boys born in 2015 were named Taj (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,081 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #953 in 1998, was only 1 in 13,092 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.0% of all boys named Taj (1,718) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1968, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8 | #3,314 (1969) | #3,314 |
| 1970s | 450 | #977 (1976) | #1,493 |
| 1980s | 337 | #1,449 (1980) | #1,843 |
| 1990s | 902 | #953 (1998) | #1,263 |
| 2000s | 1,482 | #1,005 (2005) | #1,105 |
| 2010s | 1,718 | #995 (2010) | #1,115 |
| 2020s | 822 | #1,144 (2020) | #1,372 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Taj in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 103,938 of them was named Taj, which outranked 65.1% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,583Yuki18
- #5,583Zoria18
- #5,583Zully18
- #5,799Taj17
- #5,799Aalyiah17
- #5,799Abbegail17
- #5,799Abilene17
- #6,073Aaliah16
- #6,073Abbygale16
- #6,073Abeer16
Tied with 273 names at #5,799; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 13,092 of them was named Taj, which outranked 91.6% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).