Girls' name · since 1997
Taeja
Taeja has 127 recorded births since 1997 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2002 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #24,530 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 127
- born since 1997
- 2000s
- peak decade
127 girls have been named Taeja since 1997, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Taeja has 127 recorded births among girls since 1997, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1997 to 2011.
- #24,530 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 127 born since 1997
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Taeja ranks #24,530 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 127 born since 1997, peaking in the 2000s.
- #24,530 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 127
- born since 1997
- 2000s
- peak decade
Taeja's 127 recorded births place it above 66.07% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Taeja's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Taeja's full recorded timeline at 2003, 42% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 58% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2007, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2002 peak of 18 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Taeja popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1997–2011
- Peak year (2002)
- 18
- Annual births at peak, across 15 years of records
Taeja by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (87 births, 69% of the file).
2000s was Taeja's strongest decade.
87 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 69% of all-time use.
Taeja births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 30
1990s
30 births
- 2000s
2000s
87 births
- 2010s 10
2010s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 87 births (69% of all-time use).
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- Taeja's decade-level peak was the 2000s (87 total births); usage has since declined to 10 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Taeja: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2002)
Similar record span (~14 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1997–2011 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Taeja draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.