Tj
Last seen for girls in 1986 at #10,912 · #4,050 for boys in 2025, 26 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1988 · 74 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,139since 1917
Tj over time
Rank among boys' names. Tj has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | — | #4,050 | 26 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,896 | 28 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,416 | 34 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,533 | 32 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,427 | 33 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,418 | 32 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,496 | 32 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,446 | 32 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,889 | 27 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,161 | 36 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,231 | 35 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,929 | 39 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,895 | 39 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,716 | 44 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,114 | 36 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,453 | 31 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,847 | 42 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,421 | 32 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,025 | 38 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,832 | 40 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,614 | 42 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,014 | 33 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,238 | 48 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,943 | 31 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,429 | 40 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,621 | 35 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,398 | 37 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,552 | 33 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,024 | 44 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,838 | 26 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,841 | 47 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,082 | 39 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,969 | 41 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,546 | 57 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,589 | 53 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,809 | 43 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,411 | 60 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,173 | 74 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,218 | 63 | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #1,419 | 49 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #1,389 | 49 |
| 1984 | — | #1,481 | 42 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,190 | 58 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,229 | 57 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,433 | 44 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,569 | 38 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,532 | 38 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,760 | 30 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,008 | 24 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,873 | 26 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,884 | 25 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,674 | 14 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,223 | 10 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,534 | 14 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,146 | 10 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,621 | 13 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,314 | 8 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,627 | 10 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,617 | 10 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,282 | 7 | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tj! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1920, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Tj is popular in 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#670 · 1 in 15,417
- California#1,690 · 1 in 44,677
Best ever in a state: #227 in Idaho, 1984.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Ohio | #670 | 5 | 1 in 15,417 |
| California | #1,690 | 5 | 1 in 44,677 |
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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 Tj
- 154 spots since 2024 (#3,896 → #4,050)
- 632 spots since 2020 (#3,418 → #4,050)
- 819 spots since 2015 (#3,231 → #4,050)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1988 at #1,173 (74 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 25,869 boys born in 1988 were named Tj (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 65,695 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.0% of all boys named Tj (534) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 5 | #3,981 (1917) | #3,981 |
| 1920s | 13 | #3,467 (1923) | #3,668 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 46 | #2,617 (1965) | #3,256 |
| 1970s | 204 | #1,532 (1979) | #2,326 |
| 1980s | 534 | #1,173 (1988) | #1,351 |
| 1990s | 420 | #1,546 (1992) | #2,065 |
| 2000s | 381 | #2,238 (2003) | #2,798 |
| 2010s | 351 | #2,716 (2012) | #3,233 |
| 2020s | 185 | #3,416 (2023) | #3,623 |
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.
Tj in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 344,166 of them was named Tj, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,828 names at #10,677; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 37,719 of them was named Tj, which outranked 81.7% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,371Renard50
- #1,371Rian50
- #1,371Taron50
- #1,389Tj49
- #1,389Ajay49
- #1,389Amy49
- #1,389Carnell49
- #1,416Demetrice48
- #1,416Diamond48
- #1,416Eamon48
Tied with 26 names at #1,389; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.