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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| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 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.
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 1992
Top girls' names in 1992
Top boys' names in 1992
More about 1992
girls
1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 47,280 of them was named Tai, which outranked 80.9% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,920Valorie40
- #2,920Yareli40
- #2,920Yer40
- #2,974Tai39
- #2,974Abbi39
- #2,974Abriana39
- #2,974Abrianna39
- #3,036Abria38
- #3,036Aidan38
- #3,036Alanah38
Tied with 61 names at #2,974; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,409 boys got a published name in 1992; 1 in 47,557 of them was named Tai, which outranked 80.5% of the 9,820 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,884Tyrek43
- #1,884Tyriq43
- #1,884Yousef43
- #1,914Tai42
- #1,914Ace42
- #1,914Alexi42
- #1,914Amar42
- #1,955Bert41
- #1,955Billie41
- #1,955Bridger41
Tied with 40 names at #1,914; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.