Taiwan
Last seen for girls in 1986 at #9,545 · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to boys 92.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1976 · 51 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 842since 1969
Taiwan 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 | — | #10,695 | 6 | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | #10,821 | 6 | |
| 2022 | — | #12,330 | 5 | |
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | #12,022 | 5 | |
| 2019 | — | #10,803 | 6 | |
| 2018 | — | #9,670 | 7 | |
| 2017 | — | #8,140 | 9 | |
| 2016 | — | #8,816 | 8 | |
| 2015 | — | #10,644 | 6 | |
| 2014 | — | #10,717 | 6 | |
| 2013 | — | — | ||
| 2012 | — | #6,626 | 12 | |
| 2011 | — | #7,009 | 11 | |
| 2010 | — | #7,591 | 10 | |
| 2009 | — | #9,864 | 7 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,249 | 17 | |
| 2007 | — | #5,901 | 14 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,370 | 21 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,278 | 15 | |
| 2004 | — | #6,138 | 12 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,114 | 20 | |
| 2002 | — | #5,395 | 13 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,228 | 27 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,204 | 18 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,591 | 21 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,597 | 20 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,246 | 15 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,202 | 22 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,191 | 21 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,596 | 18 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,002 | 11 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,920 | 15 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,231 | 13 | |
| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,271 | 12 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,915 | 12 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,089 | 6 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #3,653 | 12 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #3,599 | 12 |
| 1984 | — | #2,824 | 16 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,272 | 22 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,518 | 19 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,418 | 20 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,444 | 20 | |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #1,598 | 36 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #1,452 | 41 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #1,407 | 42 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | #1,210 | 51 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | #1,704 | 29 |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | #1,832 | 25 |
| 1973 | — | #2,311 | 17 | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | #2,819 | 12 |
| 1971 | — | #3,146 | 10 | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Taiwan! It came in at #4,404, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1970, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Taiwan is popular in 1969
No state had 5 or more boys named Taiwan in 1969, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Taiwan
- 1,327 spots since 2020 (#12,022 → #10,695)
- 51 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #10,695)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1976 at #1,210 (51 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 30,765 boys born in 1976 were named Taiwan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.2% of all boys named Taiwan (263) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1970, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,404 (1969) | #4,404 |
| 1970s | 263 | #1,210 (1976) | #1,942 |
| 1980s | 151 | #2,272 (1983) | #3,400 |
| 1990s | 162 | #3,191 (1995) | #4,175 |
| 2000s | 164 | #3,228 (2001) | #5,374 |
| 2010s | 75 | #6,626 (2012) | #8,891 |
| 2020s | 22 | #10,695 (2025) | #11,467 |
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.
Taiwan in 1969
Top boys' names in 1969
More about 1969
boys
1,788,174 boys got a published name in 1969; 1 in 357,635 of them was named Taiwan, which outranked 12.7% of the 5,043 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 27.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 639 names at #4,404; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 449Artis#877 → #1,326
- ↓ 410Kennedy#986 → #1,396
- ↓ 408Alfie#968 → #1,376
- ↓ 360Micky#861 → #1,221
- ↓ 356Montgomery#946 → #1,302
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.