Taraji
Taraji was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,851 among girls’ names; 2,814 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,790 Americans named Taraji and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 11 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taraji by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taraji?
#7,851 among girls’ names, 2025
Taraji fell from #1,111 in 2015 to #7,851 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.13 to 0.01 per 1,000.
437 babies in 2010, the peak
Taraji peaked in 2010, when 437 babies were given it (423 girls, #680 among girls’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,851 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,283 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,264 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,282 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,065 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,745 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,504 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 89 | #2,144 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 114 | #1,823 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 147 | #1,539 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 233 | #1,111 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 200 | #1,226 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 192 | #1,247 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 311 | #858 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 339 | #800 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 423 | #680 | 0.24 |
| 2009 | 314 | #878 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,123 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,524 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,353 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,365 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,004 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taraji a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,814 Americans recorded as Taraji, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 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 Taraji: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taraji, and how old are they?
2,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,814 Americans ever recorded as Taraji. The median Taraji alive today is 14 years old; half are between 11 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,950 people named Taraji (1,886 women and girls, 64 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,581 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 Z | 1997-2012 | 1,520 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,280 |
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).
Where are babies named Taraji born?
The states with the most babies named Taraji are Florida, Georgia and Texas, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 371 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Georgia | 207 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Texas | 159 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 129 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 126 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 124 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Illinois | 120 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Mississippi | 104 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| South Carolina | 98 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Alabama | 80 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Taraji is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Taraji is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 2002 it was given 3.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Taraji with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,930 babies since 1880, Taraji is the most given (96% 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 Taraji
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 Taraji and names like it
- Compare Taraji and TarahjiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTaraji peaked in 2010.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taraji since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Taraji.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taraji alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.