Taishawn
Taishawn was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 113 Americans have been recorded with it between 1991 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taishawn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taishawn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #14,083, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2005, the peak
Taishawn peaked in 2005, when 16 boys were given it, #5,242 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #14,083 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 6 | #12,022 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 5 | #14,237 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,752 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,221 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,456 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,242 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,985 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,552 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,998 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 7 | #8,587 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,611 | 2.7 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,740 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,641 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,449 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Taishawn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taishawn 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 Taishawn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taishawn, and how old are they?
An estimated 111 Americans named Taishawn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 19 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 117 people named Taishawn (12 women and girls, 105 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 111 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% 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).
How common is the spelling Taishawn?
Taishawn is a less common spelling of Tayshawn: SSA has recorded 113 Taishawn and 1,325 Tayshawn since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,574 babies since 1880, Taishawn is the fourth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 26 babies recorded by SSA was a Taishawn (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 Taishawn
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 Taishawn and names like it
- Compare Taishawn and TayshawnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTaishawn peaked in 2005.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Taishawn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taishawn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.