Taya
#2,368 for girls in 2025, 76 births
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 364 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,580since 1961
Taya over time
Rank among girls' names. Taya 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,368 | 76 |
| 2024 | #2,118 | 90 |
| 2023 | #1,802 | 112 |
| 2022 | #1,856 | 109 |
| 2021 | #1,780 | 114 |
| 2020 | #1,503 | 142 |
| 2019 | #1,429 | 156 |
| 2018 | #1,497 | 146 |
| 2017 | #1,224 | 196 |
| 2016 | #1,098 | 234 |
| 2015 | #977 | 277 |
| 2014 | #2,049 | 95 |
| 2013 | #1,849 | 109 |
| 2012 | #1,602 | 135 |
| 2011 | #1,469 | 152 |
| 2010 | #1,054 | 235 |
| 2009 | #942 | 283 |
| 2008 | #1,325 | 186 |
| 2007 | #1,244 | 199 |
| 2006 | #1,149 | 213 |
| 2005 | #1,105 | 214 |
| 2004 | #961 | 249 |
| 2003 | #941 | 250 |
| 2002 | #923 | 242 |
| 2001 | #961 | 226 |
| 2000 | #904 | 242 |
| 1999 | #750 | 298 |
| 1998 | #638 | 364 |
| 1997 | #855 | 239 |
| 1996 | #2,901 | 41 |
| 1995 | #2,588 | 48 |
| 1994 | #2,701 | 45 |
| 1993 | #3,506 | 31 |
| 1992 | #2,777 | 43 |
| 1991 | #2,886 | 40 |
| 1990 | #4,120 | 24 |
| 1989 | #2,879 | 38 |
| 1988 | #3,165 | 31 |
| 1987 | #3,331 | 27 |
| 1986 | #2,682 | 36 |
| 1985 | #3,328 | 26 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 |
| 1983 | #3,340 | 24 |
| 1982 | #2,532 | 37 |
| 1981 | #2,158 | 47 |
| 1980 | #2,537 | 37 |
| 1979 | #3,541 | 22 |
| 1978 | #2,680 | 31 |
| 1977 | #2,026 | 47 |
| 1976 | #1,968 | 45 |
| 1975 | #2,969 | 24 |
| 1974 | #2,348 | 33 |
| 1973 | #2,565 | 28 |
| 1972 | #2,523 | 28 |
| 1971 | #2,874 | 24 |
| 1970 | #2,267 | 34 |
| 1969 | #3,774 | 14 |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
| 1964 | #3,879 | 12 |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 |
| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Taya! It came in at #5,851, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1965, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Taya is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Montana#190 · 1 in 548
- Utah#366 · 1 in 1,492
- Iowa#563 · 1 in 2,506
- Minnesota#669 · 1 in 3,432
- Massachusetts#743 · 1 in 4,239
Best ever in a state: #80 in South Dakota, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Montana | #190 | 5 | 1 in 548 |
| Utah | #366 | 12 | 1 in 1,492 |
| Iowa | #563 | 5 | 1 in 2,506 |
| Minnesota | #669 | 7 | 1 in 3,432 |
| Massachusetts | #743 | 6 | 1 in 4,239 |
| Wisconsin | #837 | 5 | 1 in 4,609 |
| Washington | #1,075 | 5 | 1 in 6,090 |
| Michigan | #1,213 | 5 | 1 in 8,234 |
| California | #1,757 | 14 | 1 in 14,935 |
| Texas | #2,828 | 6 | 1 in 26,386 |
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See more about Taya
- 250 spots since 2024 (#2,118 → #2,368)
- 865 spots since 2020 (#1,503 → #2,368)
- 1,391 spots since 2015 (#977 → #2,368)
- Biggest jump: 2,046 spots in 1997 (#2,901 → #855)
- Biggest drop: 154 spots in 2000 (#750 → #904)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1998 at #638 (364 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1997–2004
- Highest: 1 in 4,854 girls born in 1998 were named Taya (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,148 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.0% of all girls named Taya (2,304) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 90 | #3,740 (1966) | #4,556 |
| 1970s | 316 | #1,968 (1976) | #2,576 |
| 1980s | 319 | #2,158 (1981) | #3,043 |
| 1990s | 1,173 | #638 (1998) | #2,372 |
| 2000s | 2,304 | #904 (2000) | #1,046 |
| 2010s | 1,735 | #977 (2015) | #1,425 |
| 2020s | 643 | #1,503 (2020) | #1,905 |
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.
Taya in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 13,045 of them was named Taya, which outranked 91.8% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,591Milah136
- #1,591Rosalee136
- #1,591Star136
- #1,602Taya135
- #1,602Adamaris135
- #1,602Aleyah135
- #1,602Eunice135
- #1,612Brookelyn134
- #1,612Charlene134
- #1,612Elinor134
Tied with 9 names at #1,602; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.