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 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#336 · 1 in 1,233
- Louisiana#401 · 1 in 1,614
- South Carolina#660 · 1 in 2,976
- Illinois#811 · 1 in 4,433
- Tennessee#844 · 1 in 4,434
Best ever in a state: #140 in Mississippi, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #336 | 9 | 1 in 1,233 |
| Louisiana | #401 | 13 | 1 in 1,614 |
| South Carolina | #660 | 6 | 1 in 2,976 |
| Illinois | #811 | 13 | 1 in 4,433 |
| Tennessee | #844 | 7 | 1 in 4,434 |
| Florida | #963 | 15 | 1 in 5,781 |
| North Carolina | #1,002 | 8 | 1 in 5,664 |
| Indiana | #1,058 | 5 | 1 in 6,059 |
| Georgia | #1,083 | 8 | 1 in 6,006 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,261 | 6 | 1 in 8,642 |
| Ohio | #1,282 | 6 | 1 in 8,678 |
| New York | #1,447 | 9 | 1 in 9,982 |
| Texas | #1,928 | 11 | 1 in 15,208 |
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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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 12,055 of them was named Taraji, which outranked 91.9% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,523Karli148
- #1,523Marceline148
- #1,523Martina148
- #1,534Taraji147
- #1,534Charlene147
- #1,534Edie147
- #1,534Judy147
- #1,541Akshara146
- #1,541Teegan146
- #1,541Vida146
Tied with 6 names at #1,534; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.