Tahj
Tahj was given to 112 boys in 2025, #1,544 among boys’ names; 4,075 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,020 Americans named Tahj and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tahj by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tahj?
#1,544 among boys’ names, 2025
Tahj fell from #1,302 in 2015 to #1,544 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 71.5 to 65.6 per million.
217 babies in 1998, the peak
Tahj peaked in 1998, when 217 babies were given it (204 boys, #771 among boys’ names). The 117 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 54% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112 | #1,544 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 130 | #1,422 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 140 | #1,357 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 141 | #1,340 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 157 | #1,229 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 184 | #1,083 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 155 | #1,230 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 132 | #1,356 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 133 | #1,347 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 125 | #1,410 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 137 | #1,302 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 129 | #1,343 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 132 | #1,313 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 105 | #1,534 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 124 | #1,363 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 109 | #1,500 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 135 | #1,302 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 87 | #1,751 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 83 | #1,780 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 71 | #1,917 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 73 | #1,795 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 112 | #1,322 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 139 | #1,108 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 132 | #1,110 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 131 | #1,092 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 122 | #1,138 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 175 | #864 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 204 | #771 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 121 | #1,054 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,818 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,748 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,194 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,230 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,654 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 22 | #2,969 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 26 | #2,614 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 37 | #1,984 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tahj a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,075 Americans recorded as Tahj, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 112 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tahj: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tahj, and how old are they?
4,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,075 Americans ever recorded as Tahj. The median Tahj alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,627 people named Tahj (125 women and girls, 2,502 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,189 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 201 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,960 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,860 |
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 Tahj born?
The states with the most babies named Tahj are Florida, Texas and Louisiana, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 16 | #906 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,547 | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 7 | #657 | 6.4× |
| Virginia | 7 | #955 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 7 | #688 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,261 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,448 | 0.6× |
| Mississippi | 5 | #608 | 1.2× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #865 | 0.5× |
Where Tahj is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tahj is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1989 it was given 6.4 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 Tahj 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 11,213 babies since 1880, Tahj is the second most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 117 of their 258 babies (45%), again the second most given.
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 Tahj
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 Tahj and names like it
- Compare Tahj and TajBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTahj peaked in 1998.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tahj since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Tahj.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tahj alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.