Taelynn
Taelynn was given to 88 girls in 2025, #2,138 among girls’ names; 1,824 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,810 Americans named Taelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taelynn?
#2,138 among girls’ names, 2025
Taelynn fell from #1,906 in 2015 to #2,138 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 59.9 to 54.8 per million.
124 babies in 2019, the peak
Taelynn peaked in 2019, when 124 girls were given it, #1,698 among girls’ names. The 94 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88 | #2,138 | 54.8 |
| 2024 | 92 | #2,097 | 56.8 |
| 2023 | 105 | #1,901 | 65.4 |
| 2022 | 108 | #1,884 | 65.8 |
| 2021 | 114 | #1,787 | 69.5 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,947 | 61.2 |
| 2019 | 124 | #1,698 | 73.9 |
| 2018 | 80 | #2,298 | 47.0 |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,072 | 55.0 |
| 2016 | 98 | #2,030 | 55.3 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 107 | #1,906 | 59.9 |
| 2014 | 96 | #2,047 | 53.7 |
| 2013 | 100 | #1,976 | 57.0 |
| 2012 | 93 | #2,076 | 52.8 |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,940 | 58.6 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,198 | 29.3 |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,669 | 24.0 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,164 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,055 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,361 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,238 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,931 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,428 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,658 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,035 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,972 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,237 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taelynn has been given almost only to girls: 16 boys in 27 years of records.
Girls and boys named Taelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taelynn, and how old are they?
1,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,824 Americans ever recorded as Taelynn. The median Taelynn alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 977 people named Taelynn (973 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,219 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 498 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,310 |
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 Taelynn born?
The states with the most babies named Taelynn are Texas, Virginia and Florida, with 68% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,606 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 8 | #923 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,864 | 0.7× |
| South Carolina | 6 | #762 | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,189 | 0.7× |
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 Taelynn 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 11,090 babies since 1880, Taelynn is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 94 of their 365 babies (26%), the 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 Taelynn
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 Taelynn and names like it
- Compare Taelynn and TaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTaelynn peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taelynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Taelynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Taelynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.