Taja
Taja was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,744 among girls’ names; 1,916 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,870 Americans named Taja and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 25 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taja by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taja?
#14,744 among girls’ names, 2025
Taja entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,744 in 2025.
259 babies in 1988, the peak
Taja peaked in 1988, when 259 girls were given it, #724 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,744 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,063 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,309 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,420 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,992 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,693 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,651 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,614 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,686 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,071 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 11 | #10,173 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,107 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,534 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,239 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,520 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,774 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,794 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,327 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,636 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,558 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,918 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 71 | #2,303 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,351 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,230 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,765 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,758 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,602 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,367 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,448 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,651 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,523 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,602 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 63 | #2,125 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,727 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 127 | #1,245 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 259 | #724 | 0.15 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,158 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,538 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,631 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,726 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,950 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,318 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,966 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,867 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,386 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,518 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,407 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,131 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,463 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,198 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,137 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,060 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,083 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,461 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,013 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,584 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,916 Americans recorded as Taja, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Taja: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taja, and how old are they?
1,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,916 Americans ever recorded as Taja. The median Taja alive today is 31 years old; half are between 25 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,569 people named Taja (1,493 women and girls, 76 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,853 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 147 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 861 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 781 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 83 |
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,233 babies since 1880, Taja is the most given (37% 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 Taja
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 Taja and names like it
- Compare Taja and TajahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTaja peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taja since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Taja.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Taja alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.