Taia
Taia was given to 7 girls in 2025, #13,047 among girls’ names; 592 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taia?
#13,047 among girls’ names, 2025
Taia fell from #9,423 in 2015 to #13,047 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 4.4 per million.
59 babies in 1998, the peak
Taia peaked in 1998, when 59 girls were given it, #2,389 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #13,047 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,412 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,307 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,146 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,219 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,256 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,273 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,463 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,518 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,023 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,423 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,946 | 4.5 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,351 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,659 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,385 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,598 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,912 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,061 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,445 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,105 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,724 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,649 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,715 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,277 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,966 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,775 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,389 | 33.4 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,435 | 19.5 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,663 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,197 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,985 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,591 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,964 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,822 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,335 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,904 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,255 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,815 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,699 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,861 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,042 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,462 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,878 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,174 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taia, and how old are they?
An estimated 582 Americans named Taia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 18 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 592 people named Taia (580 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 543 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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 Taia?
Taia is a less common spelling of Taya: SSA has recorded 592 Taia and 6,580 Taya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,612 babies since 1880, Taia is the fifth most given (5.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 93 babies (7.5%), the third 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 Taia
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 Taia and names like it
- Compare Taia and TayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTaia peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taia since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Taia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.