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.
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 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 17,407 of them was named Taja, which outranked 90.1% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,585Siena101
- #1,585Sunny101
- #1,585Zahra101
- #1,595Taja100
- #1,595Analise100
- #1,595Bryn100
- #1,595Chiara100
- #1,606Aundrea99
- #1,606Darla99
- #1,606Estela99
Tied with 10 names at #1,595; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 209,460 of them was named Taja, which outranked 43.6% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,642Zedrick10
- #5,642Ziare10
- #5,642Zvi10
- #6,100Taja9
- #6,100Ab9
- #6,100Abdulmalik9
- #6,100Abdulrahim9
- #6,618Abanoub8
- #6,618Abdalla8
- #6,618Abed8
Tied with 517 names at #6,100; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.