Takai — #4258 US boys' name
420 babies named Takai in U.S. Social Security records since 1996, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 70% of names given to boys today.
40% of everyone ever named Takai was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Takai in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Takai
The Social Security Administration has registered 420 babies named Takai between 1996 and 2024, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Takai currently holds the #4258 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 25 babies received it in a single year. Takai is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 48 additional births since 2000.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Takai performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 168 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Takai 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 Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Takai in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Takai 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 420 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.
Takai at a glance
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Current rank
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Takai popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1996
- Peak year (2023)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 29 years of records
Currently ranks #4258 among boys.
420 total births across 29 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 25 births in a single year.
Takai popularity over time — girls
48 total births recorded since 2000 (Takai as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Takai accounts for 10% of total recorded use across both genders.
Takai by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 168 births that decade — 40% of Takai's all-time total
Takai decade highlights
- Peak decade 168 births
- Runner-up 136 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Takai's strongest decade
168 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Takai by state
Where Takai concentrates geographically — total births since 1996
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 1.2% |
| #2 | Florida | | 5 | 1.2% |
5 of 420 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 1.2% of nationwide
- Florida 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1996–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.