Taft
#7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · boys
- 1908 · 62 births
- Debut · boys
- 16 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,544since 1907
Taft over time
Rank among boys' names. Taft has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #4,936 | 19 |
| 2020 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #6,777 | 12 |
| 2018 | #4,739 | 20 |
| 2017 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #4,470 | 22 |
| 2015 | #4,545 | 21 |
| 2014 | #5,733 | 15 |
| 2013 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #4,848 | 19 |
| 2009 | #5,102 | 18 |
| 2008 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | #4,130 | 10 |
| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #2,540 | 16 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,513 | 15 |
| 1972 | #2,819 | 12 |
| 1971 | #2,279 | 17 |
| 1970 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | #3,062 | 9 |
| 1968 | #1,962 | 17 |
| 1967 | #2,352 | 12 |
| 1966 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #2,366 | 12 |
| 1964 | #2,114 | 15 |
| 1963 | #2,539 | 11 |
| 1962 | #2,186 | 14 |
| 1961 | #2,322 | 13 |
| 1960 | #2,121 | 15 |
| 1959 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | #2,026 | 16 |
| 1957 | #2,093 | 15 |
| 1956 | #2,091 | 15 |
| 1955 | #2,139 | 14 |
| 1954 | #1,956 | 16 |
| 1953 | #1,900 | 17 |
| 1952 | #2,251 | 12 |
| 1951 | #3,066 | 7 |
| 1950 | #2,438 | 10 |
| 1949 | #1,583 | 22 |
| 1948 | #2,218 | 12 |
| 1947 | #1,916 | 16 |
| 1946 | #2,534 | 9 |
| 1945 | #1,633 | 17 |
| 1944 | #2,080 | 12 |
| 1943 | #1,833 | 16 |
| 1942 | #2,145 | 12 |
| 1941 | #1,485 | 21 |
| 1940 | #1,802 | 15 |
| 1939 | #2,609 | 8 |
| 1938 | #1,559 | 19 |
| 1937 | #1,627 | 18 |
| 1936 | #1,964 | 13 |
| 1935 | #1,929 | 14 |
| 1934 | #1,498 | 21 |
| 1933 | #2,214 | 11 |
| 1932 | #1,509 | 22 |
| 1931 | #2,207 | 12 |
| 1930 | #1,821 | 17 |
| 1929 | #1,672 | 20 |
| 1928 | #2,270 | 13 |
| 1927 | #3,151 | 8 |
| 1926 | #3,139 | 8 |
| 1925 | #3,408 | 7 |
| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,467 | 7 |
| 1922 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | — | |
| 1920 | #3,815 | 6 |
| 1919 | #2,385 | 12 |
| 1918 | #4,179 | 5 |
| 1917 | #2,423 | 11 |
| 1916 | #2,043 | 14 |
| 1915 | #1,707 | 17 |
| 1914 | #1,300 | 21 |
| 1913 | #1,075 | 22 |
| 1912 | #970 | 22 |
| 1911 | #644 | 23 |
| 1910 | #391 | 45 |
| 1909 | #318 | 52 |
| 1908 | #272 | 62 |
| 1907 | #634 | 16 |
| 1906 | — | |
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| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Taft! It came in at #634, and was given to 16 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1921–1922, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Taft
- 1,308 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #7,679)
- 1,980 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #7,679)
- 3,134 spots since 2015 (#4,545 → #7,679)
- Biggest jump: 362 spots in 1908 (#634 → #272)
- Biggest drop: 326 spots in 1912 (#644 → #970)
- Debuted 1907
- Peaked 1908 at #272 (62 births)
- Births halved by 1911, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1907–1912
- Highest: 1 in 2,489 boys born in 1908 were named Taft (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 12.4% of all boys named Taft (192) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 130 | #272 (1908) | #408 |
| 1910s | 192 | #391 (1910) | #1,712 |
| 1920s | 74 | #1,672 (1929) | #3,154 |
| 1930s | 155 | #1,498 (1934) | #1,894 |
| 1940s | 152 | #1,485 (1941) | #1,923 |
| 1950s | 131 | #1,900 (1953) | #2,278 |
| 1960s | 126 | #1,962 (1968) | #2,401 |
| 1970s | 97 | #2,279 (1971) | #3,587 |
| 1980s | 89 | #3,459 (1984) | #4,636 |
| 1990s | 75 | #4,407 (1990) | #6,524 |
| 2000s | 93 | #5,102 (2009) | #7,368 |
| 2010s | 161 | #4,470 (2016) | #5,705 |
| 2020s | 69 | #4,936 (2021) | #7,477 |
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.
Taft in 1908
Top boys' names in 1908
More about 1908
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154,336 boys got a published name in 1908; 1 in 2,489 of them was named Taft, which outranked 82.8% of the 1,584 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.