Ta — unisex name
207 babies named Ta in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 1971. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
45% of everyone ever named Ta was born in this single decade.
19 babies were named Ta in 1971 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ta
The Social Security Administration has registered 207 babies named Ta between 1971 and 2005, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Ta is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 30 additional births since 1979.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ta performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 93 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Ta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ta in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ta in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 207 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Ta at a glance
Last recorded 2005Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ta popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2005–1971
- Peak year (1971)
- 19
- Annual births at peak — across 35 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2005.
207 total births across 35 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1971 with 19 births in a single year.
Ta popularity over time — boys
30 total births recorded since 1979 (Ta as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Ta accounts for 13% of total recorded use across both genders.
Ta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 93 births that decade — 45% of Ta's all-time total
Ta decade highlights
- Peak decade 93 births
- Runner-up 62 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Ta's strongest decade
93 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 45% of all-time use.
Ta by state
Where Ta concentrates geographically — total births since 1971
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 2.4% |
5 of 207 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Pennsylvania 2.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Pennsylvania accounts for 2.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1971–2005 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.