Tahja — unisex name

What the Data Says About Tahja

The Social Security Administration has registered 233 babies named Tahja between 1990 and 2014, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tahja currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 32 babies received it in a single year. Tahja is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 15 additional births since 1999.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tahja performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 134 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Tahja shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tahja in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tahja in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 233 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.