Tai
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #2,516 for boys in 2025, 53 births
Given to boys 63.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 131 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,122since 1922
Tai over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 | #2,516 | 53 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | #2,393 | 58 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 | #2,660 | 49 |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 | #2,493 | 55 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #2,300 | 60 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #2,292 | 59 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | #2,736 | 46 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #2,579 | 49 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | #2,417 | 53 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | #2,228 | 60 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | #2,276 | 58 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | #2,017 | 70 |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 | #1,942 | 71 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #1,959 | 72 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #1,675 | 89 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #1,957 | 71 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 | #1,717 | 90 |
| 2008 | #5,279 | 27 | #1,775 | 84 |
| 2007 | #4,213 | 36 | #1,527 | 103 |
| 2006 | #4,576 | 31 | #1,345 | 121 |
| 2005 | #3,942 | 36 | #1,390 | 107 |
| 2004 | #3,566 | 41 | #1,172 | 133 |
| 2003 | #3,805 | 36 | #1,149 | 131 |
| 2002 | #3,014 | 48 | #1,447 | 88 |
| 2001 | #3,256 | 42 | #1,353 | 95 |
| 2000 | #3,886 | 32 | #1,282 | 101 |
| 1999 | #3,188 | 40 | #1,277 | 96 |
| 1998 | #2,929 | 44 | #1,605 | 65 |
| 1997 | #2,874 | 42 | #1,859 | 50 |
| 1996 | #3,632 | 30 | #1,908 | 47 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 | #1,914 | 44 |
| 1994 | #3,448 | 32 | #1,689 | 53 |
| 1993 | #3,422 | 32 | #1,875 | 44 |
| 1992 | #2,974 | 39 | #1,914 | 42 |
| 1991 | #2,320 | 55 | #1,952 | 39 |
| 1990 | #2,957 | 38 | #2,049 | 36 |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | #2,292 | 29 |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 | #1,731 | 40 |
| 1987 | #3,743 | 23 | #1,938 | 32 |
| 1986 | #2,384 | 42 | #1,565 | 42 |
| 1985 | #2,545 | 38 | #2,116 | 26 |
| 1984 | #1,812 | 59 | #1,581 | 38 |
| 1983 | #1,463 | 79 | #1,594 | 37 |
| 1982 | #1,384 | 88 | #1,622 | 37 |
| 1981 | #1,102 | 126 | #1,661 | 35 |
| 1980 | #939 | 159 | #1,524 | 40 |
| 1979 | #2,112 | 47 | #1,598 | 36 |
| 1978 | #2,801 | 29 | #2,205 | 21 |
| 1977 | #3,486 | 21 | #1,707 | 31 |
| 1976 | #2,387 | 34 | #1,502 | 36 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 | #2,540 | 16 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | #2,549 | 15 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #2,857 | 12 |
| 1972 | — | #2,819 | 12 | |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | #2,686 | 13 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #3,071 | 10 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | #3,595 | 7 |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
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| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
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| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tai! It came in at #4,307, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1922–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Tai is popular in 1984
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- California#1,301 · 1 in 30,339
Best ever in a state: #250 in Hawaii, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,301 | 7 | 1 in 30,339 |
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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 Tai
- 123 spots since 2024 (#2,393 → #2,516)
- 224 spots since 2020 (#2,292 → #2,516)
- 240 spots since 2015 (#2,276 → #2,516)
- Debuted 1922
- Peaked 2003 at #1,149 (131 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,925 boys born in 2004 were named Tai (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,228 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,149 in 2003, was only 1 in 15,079 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.7% of all boys named Tai (1,053) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1991, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 10 | #4,307 (1922) | #4,327 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 12 | #3,595 (1969) | #3,822 |
| 1970s | 202 | #1,502 (1976) | #2,353 |
| 1980s | 356 | #1,524 (1980) | #1,762 |
| 1990s | 516 | #1,277 (1999) | #1,804 |
| 2000s | 1,053 | #1,149 (2003) | #1,416 |
| 2010s | 639 | #1,675 (2011) | #2,179 |
| 2020s | 334 | #2,292 (2020) | #2,442 |
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.
Tai in 1984
Top girls' names in 1984
Top boys' names in 1984
More about 1984
girls
1,683,817 girls got a published name in 1984; 1 in 28,539 of them was named Tai, which outranked 85.1% of the 12,181 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,788Talitha60
- #1,788Taren60
- #1,788Unique60
- #1,812Tai59
- #1,812Anissa59
- #1,812Annabel59
- #1,812Carlyn59
- #1,837Cecily58
- #1,837Chris58
- #1,837Danette58
Tied with 24 names at #1,812; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,804,848 boys got a published name in 1984; 1 in 47,496 of them was named Tai, which outranked 78.5% of the 7,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,556Syed39
- #1,556Taj39
- #1,556Turner39
- #1,581Tai38
- #1,581Boris38
- #1,581Carleton38
- #1,581Charleston38
- #1,606Addison37
- #1,606Antwone37
- #1,606Axel37
Tied with 24 names at #1,581; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.