Taitum — #8178 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Taitum

The Social Security Administration has registered 469 babies named Taitum between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Taitum currently holds the #8178 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Taitum is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 102 additional births since 2006.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Taitum performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 192 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Taitum shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Taitum in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Taitum in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 469 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.