Taja

#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · Last seen for boys in 2001 at #7,536
Given to girls 98.5% of the time

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Peak · girls
1988 · 259 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,888
since 1968

Taja over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Taja has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201989peak #720, 1988girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#13,2086
2024#13,4776
2023#12,1977
2022
2021#15,2515
2020#10,2509
2019#15,5395
2018#12,4647
2017#11,6158
2016#10,8599
2015
2014#9,51711
2013#9,61211
2012#11,2579
2011#6,33520
2010#7,88015
2009#5,37826
2008#6,55920
2007#4,67531
2006#6,12521
2005#3,58741
2004#3,49042
2003#2,88553
2002#2,28871
2001#2,33168#7,5368
2000#2,21371#10,3495
1999#1,75391
1998#1,75190
1997#1,595100#6,1009
1996#2,34056
1995#2,42153
1994#2,62747
1993#2,48950
1992#2,57648
1991#2,11163
1990#1,71685
1989#1,244127#6,9416
1988#720259
1987#3,10130
1986#6,15611
1985#5,34813
1984#6,29110
1983#7,3128
1982#5,91111
1981#8,1287
1980#5,54412
1979#5,09213
1978#5,21412
1977#4,23516
1976#3,96316
1975#5,16111
1974#5,7769
1973#3,97115
1972#4,79311
1971#4,81011
1970#4,24613
1969#4,72310
1968#5,1478
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First appearance
1968

The first year at least five girls were named Taja! It came in at #5,147, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2015, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Taja
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 269 spots since 2024 (#13,477#13,208)
  • 2,958 spots since 2020 (#10,250#13,208)
  • Biggest jump: 2,381 spots in 1988 (#3,101#720)
  • Biggest drop: 524 spots in 1989 (#720#1,244)
Rise & fade · girls
20 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1968
  • Peaked 1988 at #720 (259 births)
  • Births halved by 1989, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1988
Share of babies · girls
1 in 6,876
  • Highest: 1 in 6,876 girls born in 1988 were named Taja (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 36.2% of all girls named Taja (683) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s18#4,723 (1969)#4,935
1970s127#3,963 (1976)#4,726
1980s488#720 (1988)#4,976
1990s683#1,595 (1997)#2,138
2000s444#2,213 (2000)#3,953
2010s95#6,335 (2011)#10,564
2020s33#10,250 (2020)#12,877

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Taja in 1989

girls
#1,244
127 births · 1 in 14,516 girls
boys
#6,941
6 births · 1 in 333,488 boys

Top girls' names in 1989

  1. #1Jessica47,887
  2. #2Ashley47,588
  3. #3Brittany37,792
  4. #4Amanda36,834
  5. #5Sarah27,797
  6. #6Samantha24,792
  7. #7Jennifer24,006
  8. #8Stephanie22,766
  9. #9Lauren21,065
  10. #10Elizabeth20,298
  11. #1,244Taja127

Top boys' names in 1989

  1. #1Michael65,415
  2. #2Christopher53,186
  3. #3Matthew45,375
  4. #4Joshua44,100
  5. #5David35,225
  6. #6Daniel35,007
  7. #7Andrew34,817
  8. #8Justin32,852
  9. #9James32,720
  10. #10Robert30,072
  11. #6,941Taja6
More about 1989

girls

1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 14,516 of them was named Taja, which outranked 91.5% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Taja
  1. #1,239Samara128
  2. #1,239Skylar128
  3. #1,239Trinity128
  4. #1,244Taja127
  5. #1,244Candi127
  6. #1,244Imani127
  7. #1,244June127
  8. #1,250Amalia126
  9. #1,250Darci126
  10. #1,250Davina126

Tied with 5 names at #1,244; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1988
Risers
  1. 9,523Audriana#10,386#863
  2. 7,504Martika#8,391#887
  3. 6,932Audrianna#7,691#759
  4. 3,972Elizabet#4,496#524
  5. 1,772Katherin#2,489#717
Fallers
  1. 539Diandra#905#1,444
  2. 524Taja#720#1,244
  3. 455Jonathan#999#1,454
  4. 445Katarina#960#1,405
  5. 397Caryn#816#1,213

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 333,488 of them was named Taja, which outranked 24.8% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Taja
  1. #6,229Zekiel7
  2. #6,229Zubin7
  3. #6,229Zvi7
  4. #6,941Taja6
  5. #6,941Aaran6
  6. #6,941Abayomi6
  7. #6,941Abrham6
  8. #7,905Aakeem5
  9. #7,905Aaric5
  10. #7,905Aaronmichael5

Tied with 963 names at #6,941; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1988
Risers
  1. 6,314Kiara#7,270#956
  2. 5,870Alexande#6,426#556
  3. 1,111Kwame#1,768#657
  4. 766Kadeem#1,467#701
  5. 684Hakeem#1,270#586
Fallers
  1. 839Long#819#1,658
  2. 337Darell#981#1,318
  3. 294Whitney#890#1,184
  4. 269Trevin#840#1,109
  5. 252Curt#850#1,102

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1989