Taiquan
Taiquan was last recorded in 2008, when 7 babies were given it; 116 Americans have been recorded with it between 1989 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taiquan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taiquan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,895, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 2006, the peak
Taiquan peaked in 2006, when 11 boys were given it, #7,353 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #10,895 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,353 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,290 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,471 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,974 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,386 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #8,106 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,781 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,232 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,034 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 9 | #6,339 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,670 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,298 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,435 | 4.0 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,069 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Taiquan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taiquan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taiquan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taiquan, and how old are they?
An estimated 113 Americans named Taiquan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 23 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 114 people named Taiquan (0 women and girls, 114 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 114 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,799 babies since 1880, Taiquan is the fourth most given (6.4% of them).
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 Taiquan
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 Taiquan and names like it
- Compare Taiquan and TaquanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTaiquan peaked in 2006.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taiquan since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Taiquan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taiquan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.