Tashon
Tashon was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 355 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tashon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tashon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,144, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 2002, the peak
Tashon peaked in 2002, when 26 boys were given it, #3,433 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #12,144 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,814 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,739 | 5.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,918 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,939 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 10 | #8,029 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,444 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #8,061 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,749 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,759 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 11 | #7,529 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,270 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,244 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #6,090 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,782 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,433 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,650 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,538 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,277 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,505 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,128 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,043 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,863 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #5,073 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,529 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,187 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,191 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,142 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,117 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,681 | 4.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,632 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,964 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tashon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 355 Americans recorded as Tashon, 4% are girls and 96% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tashon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tashon, and how old are they?
An estimated 346 Americans named Tashon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 336 people named Tashon (59 women and girls, 277 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 339 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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 1,643 babies since 1880, Tashon is the second most given (22% 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 Tashon
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 Tashon and names like it
- Compare Tashon and TashaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTashon peaked in 2002.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tashon since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Tashon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tashon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.