Tailyn
Tailyn was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,799 among girls’ names; 824 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tailyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tailyn?
#6,799 among girls’ names, 2025
Tailyn fell from #4,481 in 2015 to #6,799 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.9 to 10.6 per million.
56 babies in 2011, the peak
Tailyn peaked in 2011, when 56 girls were given it, #3,045 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,799 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,589 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,109 | 16.2 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,956 | 23.2 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,077 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,634 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,532 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,733 | 24.1 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,839 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,771 | 23.1 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,481 | 17.9 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,645 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,995 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,845 | 23.3 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,045 | 31.8 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,845 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,074 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,538 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,363 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,218 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,783 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,659 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,212 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,166 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,819 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,444 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,658 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,270 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,599 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tailyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 824 Americans recorded as Tailyn, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tailyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tailyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 818 Americans named Tailyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 601 people named Tailyn (565 women and girls, 36 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 647 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below 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 Tailyn?
Tailyn is a less common spelling of Taylin: SSA has recorded 824 Tailyn and 3,672 Taylin since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,035 babies since 1880, Tailyn is the eighth most given (5.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 489 babies (3.5%), again the eighth most given.
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 Tailyn
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 Tailyn and names like it
- Compare Tailyn and TaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTailyn peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tailyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Tailyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tailyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
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