Takai
Takai was given to 37 boys in 2025, #3,227 among boys’ names; 505 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Takai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Takai?
#3,227 among boys’ names, 2025
Takai rose from #5,953 in 2015 to #3,227 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.8 to 21.7 per million.
37 babies in 2025, the peak
Takai peaked in 2025, when 37 boys were given it, #3,227 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 25 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,227 | 21.7 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,304 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,320 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,834 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,603 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,943 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,766 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,078 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,618 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,760 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,953 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 19 | #5,035 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,196 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,513 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,959 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,995 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,766 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,729 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,870 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,650 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,606 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,390 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,593 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #6,026 | 6.2 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,591 | 3.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,871 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Takai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 505 Americans recorded as Takai, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 37 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Takai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Takai, and how old are they?
An estimated 500 Americans named Takai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 337 people named Takai (70 women and girls, 267 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 366 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 1,949 babies since 1880, Takai is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 45 babies (82%), the 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 Takai
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 Takai and names like it
- Compare Takai and TakeoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Takai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Takai alive today were born 2013-2025.
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