Taj
#5,410 for girls in 2025, 23 births · #1,663 for boys in 2025, 100 births
Given to boys 90.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 146 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,719since 1969
Taj 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,410 | 23 | #1,663 | 100 |
| 2024 | #4,669 | 29 | #1,448 | 125 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | #1,458 | 124 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #1,314 | 143 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 | #1,207 | 160 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | #1,144 | 170 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | #1,182 | 163 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #1,128 | 171 |
| 2017 | #6,287 | 19 | #1,175 | 159 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | #1,149 | 167 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | #1,016 | 200 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #1,252 | 143 |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 | #1,155 | 156 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #1,081 | 173 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | #1,017 | 189 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #995 | 197 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #1,020 | 191 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #1,100 | 167 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #1,182 | 149 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #1,137 | 150 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #1,005 | 169 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | #1,191 | 129 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #1,039 | 151 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #1,130 | 126 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #1,110 | 128 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | #1,137 | 122 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #1,063 | 128 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | #953 | 146 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | #1,130 | 111 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #1,347 | 80 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #1,393 | 72 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #1,312 | 79 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #1,313 | 75 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #1,572 | 56 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | #1,155 | 91 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #1,395 | 64 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #2,027 | 35 |
| 1988 | — | #1,989 | 32 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,468 | 22 | |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | — | #1,975 | 29 | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #1,556 | 39 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | #1,787 | 31 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #1,539 | 40 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #1,548 | 39 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | #1,449 | 43 |
| 1979 | — | #1,435 | 42 | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | #1,186 | 56 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #1,054 | 67 |
| 1976 | — | #977 | 72 | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #1,065 | 61 |
| 1974 | — | #1,290 | 43 | |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 | #1,108 | 54 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #1,721 | 26 |
| 1971 | — | #2,203 | 18 | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | — | #3,314 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Taj! It came in at #3,314, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1970, when fewer than 12 boys a year got the name.
See more about Taj
- 215 spots since 2024 (#1,448 → #1,663)
- 519 spots since 2020 (#1,144 → #1,663)
- 647 spots since 2015 (#1,016 → #1,663)
- Biggest jump: 177 spots in 1998 (#1,130 → #953)
- Biggest drop: 110 spots in 1999 (#953 → #1,063)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1998 at #953 (146 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · 1976–2010
- Highest: 1 in 9,584 boys born in 2015 were named Taj (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,081 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #953 in 1998, was only 1 in 13,092 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.0% of all boys named Taj (1,718) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1968, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8 | #3,314 (1969) | #3,314 |
| 1970s | 450 | #977 (1976) | #1,493 |
| 1980s | 337 | #1,449 (1980) | #1,843 |
| 1990s | 902 | #953 (1998) | #1,263 |
| 2000s | 1,482 | #1,005 (2005) | #1,105 |
| 2010s | 1,718 | #995 (2010) | #1,115 |
| 2020s | 822 | #1,144 (2020) | #1,372 |
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.
Taj in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 219,126 of them was named Taj, which outranked 39.7% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,812Zola9
- #8,812Zuleica9
- #8,812Zykeria9
- #9,581Taj8
- #9,581Aaliah8
- #9,581Aaminah8
- #9,581Abbygale8
- #10,567Aaliyha7
- #10,567Aarianna7
- #10,567Aarionna7
Tied with 985 names at #9,581; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 23,679 of them was named Taj, which outranked 87.2% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,334Karson81
- #1,334Matthias81
- #1,334Zain81
- #1,347Taj80
- #1,347Alexzander80
- #1,347Erwin80
- #1,347Hiram80
- #1,359Ajay79
- #1,359Alijah79
- #1,359Delvin79
Tied with 11 names at #1,347; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.