Taitum
Taitum is given to both girls and boys: 18 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,520 among girls’ names and #9,597 among boys’, #8,816 among all names counting both); 597 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taitum by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taitum?
#6,520 among girls’ names, 2025
Taitum rose from #6,949 in 2015 to #6,520 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.1 to 11.2 per million.
40 babies in 2011, the peak
Taitum peaked in 2011, when 40 babies were given it (28 girls, #5,047 among girls’ names). The 26 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 65% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,520 | 8 | #9,597 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,376 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,894 | 7 | #10,671 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,953 | 5 | #14,083 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,986 | 7 | #10,657 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,991 | 8 | #9,450 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,671 | 6 | #11,960 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,553 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,404 | 7 | #10,631 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,874 | 7 | #10,589 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,949 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,597 | 8 | #9,516 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,691 | 9 | #8,678 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,087 | 6 | #12,096 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,047 | 12 | #6,943 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,759 | 10 | #8,054 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,782 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,773 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,775 | 5 | #14,136 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,805 | 5 | #13,768 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,383 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,360 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,947 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,796 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,036 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,445 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,796 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,969 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,948 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Taitum a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 597 Americans recorded as Taitum, 82% are girls and 18% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Taitum: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taitum, and how old are they?
An estimated 592 Americans named Taitum and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 477 people named Taitum (383 women and girls, 94 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 474 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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 Taitum?
Taitum is a less common spelling of Taytum: SSA has recorded 597 Taitum and 4,618 Taytum since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 48,458 babies since 1880, Taitum is the fourth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 3,907 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
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 Taitum
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 Taitum and names like it
- Compare Taitum and TaytumBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTaitum peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taitum since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Taitum.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taitum alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.