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
- Peak · girls
- 1988 · 259 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,888since 1968
Taja over time
Rank among girls' names. Taja has never cracked the top 700 here.
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 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | — | |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | — | |
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | — | |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | — | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | — | |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | — | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | — | |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | — | |
| 2015 | — | — | ||
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | — | |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | — | |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | — | |
| 2011 | #6,335 | 20 | — | |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 | — | |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 | — | |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,587 | 41 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,490 | 42 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,885 | 53 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,288 | 71 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,331 | 68 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #2,213 | 71 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #1,753 | 91 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,751 | 90 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,595 | 100 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #2,340 | 56 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,421 | 53 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,627 | 47 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,489 | 50 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,576 | 48 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,111 | 63 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,716 | 85 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,244 | 127 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #720 | 259 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,101 | 30 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | — | |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | — | |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | — | |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,235 | 16 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,963 | 16 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | — | |
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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.
Where Taja is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#915 · 1 in 7,870
- Michigan#952 · 1 in 8,675
- Pennsylvania#1,011 · 1 in 10,091
- New York#1,716 · 1 in 17,389
Best ever in a state: #255 in Louisiana, 1988.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Carolina | #915 | 5 | 1 in 7,870 |
| Michigan | #952 | 6 | 1 in 8,675 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,011 | 6 | 1 in 10,091 |
| New York | #1,716 | 6 | 1 in 17,389 |
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See more about Taja
- 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)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1988 at #720 (259 births)
- Births halved by 1989, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1988
- 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%)
- 36.2% of all girls named Taja (683) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 18 | #4,723 (1969) | #4,935 |
| 1970s | 127 | #3,963 (1976) | #4,726 |
| 1980s | 488 | #720 (1988) | #4,976 |
| 1990s | 683 | #1,595 (1997) | #2,138 |
| 2000s | 444 | #2,213 (2000) | #3,953 |
| 2010s | 95 | #6,335 (2011) | #10,564 |
| 2020s | 33 | #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 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 31,304 of them was named Taja, which outranked 85.3% 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).
- #2,314Shai57
- #2,314Siani57
- #2,314Tanasia57
- #2,340Taja56
- #2,340Alaysia56
- #2,340Alessia56
- #2,340Alexie56
- #2,372Alyx55
- #2,372Anja55
- #2,372Aubry55
Tied with 31 names at #2,340; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.