Taha
Taha was given to 107 boys in 2025, #1,598 among boys’ names; 2,424 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,390 Americans named Taha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Taha mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Taha is “a male given name”
From Arabic طه
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Taha?
#1,598 among boys’ names, 2025
Taha rose from #1,948 in 2015 to #1,598 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 39.1 to 62.6 per million.
107 babies in 2014, the peak
Taha peaked in 2014, when 107 boys were given it, #1,512 among boys’ names. The 107 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 | #1,598 | 62.6 |
| 2024 | 96 | #1,733 | 55.7 |
| 2023 | 79 | #1,965 | 46.2 |
| 2022 | 85 | #1,872 | 48.7 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,169 | 37.7 |
| 2020 | 72 | #1,994 | 41.7 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,037 | 40.1 |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,012 | 40.2 |
| 2017 | 86 | #1,790 | 46.5 |
| 2016 | 79 | #1,888 | 41.6 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 75 | #1,948 | 39.1 |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,512 | 55.7 |
| 2013 | 91 | #1,667 | 48.1 |
| 2012 | 97 | #1,614 | 51.1 |
| 2011 | 96 | #1,608 | 50.5 |
| 2010 | 84 | #1,775 | 43.8 |
| 2009 | 79 | #1,858 | 39.8 |
| 2008 | 79 | #1,860 | 38.7 |
| 2007 | 81 | #1,810 | 39.0 |
| 2006 | 80 | #1,755 | 38.9 |
| 2005 | 67 | #1,911 | 33.5 |
| 2004 | 72 | #1,756 | 36.3 |
| 2003 | 84 | #1,533 | 42.5 |
| 2002 | 66 | #1,760 | 34.0 |
| 2001 | 58 | #1,905 | 29.9 |
| 2000 | 43 | #2,286 | 21.9 |
| 1999 | 49 | #1,988 | 25.5 |
| 1998 | 35 | #2,497 | 18.3 |
| 1997 | 35 | #2,388 | 18.6 |
| 1996 | 33 | #2,426 | 17.4 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,615 | 15.2 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,089 | 11.9 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,627 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,198 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,457 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,944 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,235 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,672 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,531 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,268 | 4.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,127 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,543 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,151 | 3.4 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,374 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,151 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Taha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taha has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taha, and how old are they?
2,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,424 Americans ever recorded as Taha. The median Taha alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 3,047 people named Taha (70 women and girls, 2,977 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,914 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,080 |
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 Taha born?
The states with the most babies named Taha are Texas, California and Virginia, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 21 | #1,092 | 0.9× |
| California | 16 | #1,235 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 12 | #621 | 2.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,084 | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | #2,009 | 2.4× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,166 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,065 | 0.3× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,142 | 0.2× |
Where Taha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Taha is most over-represented in New York: since 1974 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Taha 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 38,443 babies since 1880, Taha is the third most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 107 of their 2,261 babies (4.7%), the second 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 Taha
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 Taha and names like it
- Compare Taha and TateBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTaha peaked in 2014.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taha since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Taha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Taha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.