Taina
Taina was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,088 among girls’ names; 2,757 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,680 Americans named Taina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 22 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Taina mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Taina is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “seedling” (taimi).
Eastern Finnish diminutive of the Russian given name Татья́на (Tatʹjána), identical with a dialectal form of taimi (“seedling”).
/ˈtɑi̯nɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Taina?
#6,088 among girls’ names, 2025
Taina fell from #6,009 in 2015 to #6,088 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 12.4 per million.
248 babies in 2001, the peak
Taina peaked in 2001, when 248 girls were given it, #913 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,088 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,221 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,722 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,962 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,313 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,826 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,760 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,766 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,321 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,638 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #6,009 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,270 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,436 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,383 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,046 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,228 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,937 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,115 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,888 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,776 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 82 | #2,235 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 102 | #1,866 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 130 | #1,507 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 168 | #1,207 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 248 | #913 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 73 | #2,185 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 61 | #2,419 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,917 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,726 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,619 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,966 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,996 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,715 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,027 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,025 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,144 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,344 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,970 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,521 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,189 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,900 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,335 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,952 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 62 | #1,784 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 104 | #1,251 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,384 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,574 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,466 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,459 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,272 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,749 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,535 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,008 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,767 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,506 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,531 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,913 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,399 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,927 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,406 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,225 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,826 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,656 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,666 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,811 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,236 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,954 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,902 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,785 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,463 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taina, and how old are they?
2,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,757 Americans ever recorded as Taina. The median Taina alive today is 26 years old; half are between 22 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 2,865 people named Taina (2,851 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,570 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 134 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 262 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 717 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 285 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Taina born?
The states with the most babies named Taina are New York, Florida and New Jersey, with 76% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 824 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| Florida | 175 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 152 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| California | 78 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 75 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 71 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Connecticut | 63 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Taina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Taina is most over-represented in New York: since 1955 it was given 4.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Taina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 203,339 babies since 1880, Taina is the seventh most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 395 babies (5.1%), the fifth 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 Taina
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 Taina and names like it
- Compare Taina and TanyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTaina peaked in 2001.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taina since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Taina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Taina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.