Taison
Taison was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,617 among boys’ names; 242 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taison by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taison?
#7,617 among boys’ names, 2025
Taison rose from #8,647 in 2015 to #7,617 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 6.4 per million.
16 babies in 2009, the peak
Taison peaked in 2009, when 16 boys were given it, #5,764 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,617 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,901 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,830 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,892 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 10 | #8,085 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,449 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,671 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,554 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 15 | #6,029 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,971 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,647 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,515 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,677 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,981 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,941 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 10 | #8,053 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,764 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,753 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 5 | #14,134 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,849 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,161 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #11,177 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,472 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,496 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,215 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,326 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Taison a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taison has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taison: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taison, and how old are they?
An estimated 239 Americans named Taison and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 203 people named Taison (3 women and girls, 200 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 186 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% 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 Taison?
Taison is a less common spelling of Tayson: SSA has recorded 242 Taison and 1,100 Tayson since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 1,804 babies since 1880, Taison is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 62 babies (18%), again the third 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 Taison
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 Taison and names like it
- Compare Taison and TaysonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTaison peaked in 2009.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Taison.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taison alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.