Tajae
Tajae was last recorded in 2024, when 11 babies were given it; 480 Americans have been recorded with it between 1993 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tajae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tajae?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,414, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1999, the peak
Tajae peaked in 1999, when 43 babies were given it (27 girls, #4,293 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,414 | 6 | #12,175 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,988 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 7 | #10,462 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,694 | 5 | #13,892 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,864 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,164 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 7 | #10,591 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 7 | #10,590 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 5 | #14,084 | |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,327 | 7 | #10,614 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 11 | #10,599 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 12 | #7,128 | |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,958 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,843 | 11 | #7,355 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,501 | 5 | #13,110 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,347 | 8 | #8,813 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,168 | 8 | #8,526 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,410 | 17 | #4,673 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,680 | 12 | #5,960 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,289 | 20 | #4,039 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,293 | 16 | #4,503 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,036 | 7 | #8,341 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,390 | 11 | #5,600 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,491 | 12 | #5,138 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,987 | 8 | #6,896 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,419 | 7 | #7,652 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,434 | 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 Tajae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 480 Americans recorded as Tajae, 59% are girls and 41% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tajae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tajae, and how old are they?
An estimated 473 Americans named Tajae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 20 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 475 people named Tajae (247 women and girls, 228 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 452 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,233 babies since 1880, Tajae is the fourth most given (9.2% 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 Tajae
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 Tajae and names like it
- Compare Tajae and TajaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTajae peaked in 1999.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tajae since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Tajae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tajae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.