Taraji
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · Last seen for boys in 2014 at #10,717
Given to girls 98.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 423 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,764since 2002
Taraji over time
Rank among girls' names. Taraji has never cracked the top 600 here.
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 | #7,491 | 14 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,207 | 34 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,191 | 34 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,202 | 34 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,037 | 54 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,712 | 61 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,482 | 71 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,130 | 89 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,815 | 114 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,534 | 147 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,110 | 233 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,221 | 200 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #1,242 | 192 | — | |
| 2012 | #858 | 311 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #800 | 339 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #680 | 423 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #876 | 314 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #5,013 | 29 | — | |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,265 | 34 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | — | |
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| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Taraji! It came in at #10,246, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2003–2004, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Taraji is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#261 · 1 in 1,012
- South Carolina#268 · 1 in 1,092
- Georgia#331 · 1 in 1,539
- Louisiana#372 · 1 in 1,502
- Alabama#375 · 1 in 1,698
Best ever in a state: #140 in Mississippi, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #261 | 11 | 1 in 1,012 |
| South Carolina | #268 | 16 | 1 in 1,092 |
| Georgia | #331 | 31 | 1 in 1,539 |
| Louisiana | #372 | 13 | 1 in 1,502 |
| Alabama | #375 | 11 | 1 in 1,698 |
| Florida | #489 | 31 | 1 in 2,565 |
| New Jersey | #503 | 15 | 1 in 2,464 |
| Connecticut | #514 | 5 | 1 in 2,413 |
| Virginia | #517 | 14 | 1 in 2,575 |
| North Carolina | #524 | 17 | 1 in 2,597 |
| Tennessee | #554 | 11 | 1 in 2,692 |
| Illinois | #610 | 19 | 1 in 3,130 |
| Indiana | #652 | 9 | 1 in 3,372 |
| Pennsylvania | #671 | 14 | 1 in 3,772 |
| Oklahoma | #725 | 5 | 1 in 3,274 |
| Missouri | #735 | 7 | 1 in 3,863 |
| Wisconsin | #845 | 5 | 1 in 4,687 |
| Texas | #847 | 31 | 1 in 5,029 |
| New York | #925 | 17 | 1 in 5,457 |
| Michigan | #973 | 7 | 1 in 5,917 |
| Ohio | #1,090 | 7 | 1 in 7,371 |
| California | #1,836 | 13 | 1 in 15,971 |
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See more about Taraji
- 3,284 spots since 2024 (#4,207 → #7,491)
- 4,779 spots since 2020 (#2,712 → #7,491)
- 6,381 spots since 2015 (#1,110 → #7,491)
- Biggest jump: 4,137 spots in 2009 (#5,013 → #876)
- Biggest drop: 384 spots in 2013 (#858 → #1,242)
- Debuted 2002
- Peaked 2010 at #680 (423 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2009–2012
- Highest: 1 in 4,202 girls born in 2010 were named Taraji (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 76.7% of all girls named Taraji (2,119) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 414 | #876 (2009) | #6,622 |
| 2010s | 2,119 | #680 (2010) | #1,387 |
| 2020s | 231 | #2,712 (2020) | #4,307 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Taraji in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 5,189 of them was named Taraji, which outranked 95.9% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 271,322 of them was named Taraji, which outranked 33.1% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,767Zyquez8
- #8,767Zyree8
- #8,767Zyrell8
- #9,600Taraji7
- #9,600Aadarsh7
- #9,600Aaidyn7
- #9,600Aarik7
- #10,808Aadhav6
- #10,808Aadish6
- #10,808Aanav6
Tied with 1,207 names at #9,600; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.