Tahja
Tahja was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 248 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tahja by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tahja?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,922, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 1999, the peak
Tahja peaked in 1999, when 38 babies were given it (32 girls, #3,791 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #18,922 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,268 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,296 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,729 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,735 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,197 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,218 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,776 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,283 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,954 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 32 | #3,791 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,618 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,199 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,489 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,673 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,615 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,447 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,950 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,421 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tahja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 248 Americans recorded as Tahja, 94% are girls and 6% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tahja: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tahja, and how old are they?
An estimated 244 Americans named Tahja and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 24 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 281 people named Tahja (237 women and girls, 44 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 245 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Tahja?
Tahja is a less common spelling of Taja: SSA has recorded 248 Tahja and 1,916 Taja since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,233 babies since 1880, Tahja is the sixth most given (4.7% of them).
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 Tahja
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 Tahja and names like it
- Compare Tahja and TajaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTahja peaked in 1999.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tahja since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Tahja.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tahja alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.