Taika
Taika was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,596 among boys’ names; 109 Americans have been recorded with it since 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Taika mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Taika is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “magic” (taika).
< taika (“magic”)
/ˈtɑi̯kɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Taika?
#9,596 among boys’ names, 2025
Taika entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #9,596 in 2025.
22 babies in 2022, the peak
Taika peaked in 2022, when 22 boys were given it, #4,678 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,596 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,623 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,847 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,678 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,993 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,423 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,786 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,553 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Taika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taika has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 8 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taika, and how old are they?
An estimated 108 Americans named Taika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 3 and 6. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 1,027 babies since 1880, Taika is the fourth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 45 babies (18%), the second 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 Taika
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 Taika and names like it
- Compare Taika and TakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTaika peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taika since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Taika: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Taika.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Taika alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.