Taira
Taira was last recorded in 2024, when 9 babies were given it; 1,022 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Taira mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Taira is “a male given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese 平 (Taira) or Japanese 平良 (Taira).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Taira?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,014, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1990, the peak
Taira peaked in 1990, when 46 girls were given it, #2,593 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9 | #11,014 | 5.6 |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,029 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,238 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,544 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,168 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,377 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,476 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,394 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,219 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,766 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 14 | #8,197 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,264 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,240 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,545 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,385 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 22 | #5,014 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,561 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,993 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,035 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,572 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,360 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,278 | 19.3 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,257 | 19.0 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,144 | 19.2 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,593 | 24.2 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,606 | 23.9 |
| 1988 | 45 | #2,436 | 25.3 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,408 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,768 | 20.4 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,538 | 22.7 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,057 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,139 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,333 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,423 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,596 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 19 | #4,028 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,228 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,988 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,330 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,565 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,841 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,553 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,526 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,939 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,362 | 5.7 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,407 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taira, and how old are they?
An estimated 993 Americans named Taira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 28 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,016 people named Taira (969 women and girls, 47 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 992 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 190,031 babies since 1880, Taira is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 355 babies recorded by SSA was a Taira (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Taira
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 Taira and names like it
- Compare Taira and TaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTaira peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taira since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Taira: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Taira.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Taira alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.