Tait
Tait was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 1,223 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Tait and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tait by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tait?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,240, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 2007, the peak
Tait peaked in 2007, when 44 boys were given it, #2,756 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #8,240 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,943 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,893 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,512 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,643 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,765 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,555 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,748 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,304 | 7.4 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,274 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 15 | #5,960 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,776 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,659 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,499 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,439 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,389 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 38 | #3,096 | 18.6 |
| 2007 | 44 | #2,756 | 21.2 |
| 2006 | 43 | #2,731 | 20.9 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,227 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,439 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,709 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,432 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,213 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,792 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,462 | 12.0 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,283 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,243 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,091 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,669 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,881 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 36 | #2,199 | 18.4 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,808 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,669 | 12.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,438 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 19 | #3,184 | 9.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,677 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,532 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,090 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,200 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,903 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,207 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,263 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,584 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,814 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 24 | #2,146 | 13.9 |
| 1978 | 28 | #1,865 | 17.1 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,348 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 28 | #1,818 | 17.8 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,627 | 10.2 |
| 1974 | 36 | #1,466 | 22.9 |
| 1973 | 21 | #2,026 | 13.5 |
| 1972 | 31 | #1,560 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 28 | #1,700 | 15.8 |
| 1970 | 20 | #2,049 | 10.8 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,902 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,184 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,470 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tait a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,223 Americans recorded as Tait, 1% are girls and 99% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tait: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tait, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,223 Americans ever recorded as Tait. The median Tait alive today is 27 years old; half are between 18 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,220 people named Tait (109 women and girls, 1,111 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,143 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 265 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 274 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 480 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 151 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,292 babies since 1880, Tait is the most given (95% 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 Tait
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 Tait and names like it
- Compare Tait and TaytBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTait peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tait since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Tait.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tait alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.