Taija — girls' name
822 babies named Taija in U.S. Social Security records since 1985, with the highest year being 1999. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Taija was born in this single decade.
54 babies were named Taija in 1999 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Taija
The Social Security Administration has registered 822 babies named Taija between 1985 and 2019, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Taija currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 54 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Taija performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 336 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Taija shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Taija in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Taija 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 822 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.
Taija at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Taija popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1985
- Peak year (1999)
- 54
- Annual births at peak — across 35 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
822 total births across 35 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1999 with 54 births in a single year.
Taija by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 336 births that decade — 41% of Taija's all-time total
Taija decade highlights
- Peak decade 336 births
- Runner-up 297 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Taija's strongest decade
336 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Taija by state
Where Taija concentrates geographically — total births since 1985
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Illinois | | 15 | 1.8% |
| #2 | Texas | | 12 | 1.5% |
| #3 | Virginia | | 8 | 1.0% |
| #4 | Florida | | 6 | 0.7% |
| #5 | Georgia | | 6 | 0.7% |
| #6 | California | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #7 | North Carolina | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #8 | Ohio | | 5 | 0.6% |
15 of 822 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Illinois 1.8% of nationwide
- Texas 1.5% of nationwide
- Virginia 1.0% of nationwide
- Florida 0.7% of nationwide
- Georgia 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 1.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1985–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.