Taelyn
Taelyn is given to both girls and boys: 69 girls and 16 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,563 among girls’ names and #5,820 among boys’, #3,965 among all names counting both); 2,522 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,500 Americans named Taelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taelyn?
#2,563 among girls’ names, 2025
Taelyn fell from #1,591 in 2015 to #2,563 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 76.7 to 42.9 per million.
148 babies in 2015, the peak
Taelyn peaked in 2015, when 148 babies were given it (137 girls, #1,591 among girls’ names). The 85 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 57% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,563 | 16 | #5,820 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,487 | 15 | #6,146 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,756 | 27 | #4,100 |
| 2022 | 81 | #2,314 | 11 | #7,698 |
| 2021 | 104 | #1,908 | 19 | #5,081 |
| 2020 | 77 | #2,314 | 18 | #5,198 |
| 2019 | 102 | #1,940 | 14 | #6,363 |
| 2018 | 113 | #1,811 | 19 | #5,076 |
| 2017 | 116 | #1,800 | 18 | #5,269 |
| 2016 | 119 | #1,754 | 11 | #7,540 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 137 | #1,591 | 11 | #7,442 |
| 2014 | 118 | #1,767 | 12 | #6,994 |
| 2013 | 130 | #1,645 | 8 | #9,542 |
| 2012 | 134 | #1,622 | 10 | #8,056 |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,631 | 12 | #6,940 |
| 2010 | 143 | #1,560 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 119 | #1,821 | 7 | #10,819 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,509 | 8 | #9,748 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,715 | 7 | #10,743 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,255 | 6 | #11,874 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,801 | 6 | #11,285 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,615 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,579 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,794 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,302 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,466 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 22 | #5,013 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,480 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,710 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,063 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,473 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Taelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,522 Americans recorded as Taelyn, 90% are girls and 10% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Taelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taelyn, and how old are they?
2,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,522 Americans ever recorded as Taelyn. The median Taelyn alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,674 people named Taelyn (1,543 women and girls, 131 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,959 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 16 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 996 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,490 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Taelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Taelyn are Texas, California and Florida, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,605 | 0.7× |
| California | 5 | #3,482 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,447 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,294 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,760 | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Taelyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,035 babies since 1880, Taelyn is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 85 of their 489 babies (17%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Taelyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Taelyn and names like it
- Compare Taelyn and TaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTaelyn peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Taelyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Taelyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.