Taten
Taten was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,136 among boys’ names; 590 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taten?
#7,136 among boys’ names, 2025
Taten fell from #4,278 in 2015 to #7,136 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.5 to 7.0 per million.
36 babies in 2007, the peak
Taten peaked in 2007, when 36 boys were given it, #3,180 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,136 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,149 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,864 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,203 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,750 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,438 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,730 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,557 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,752 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,755 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,278 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,872 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,144 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,365 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,488 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 27 | #3,888 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,905 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #5,039 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,180 | 17.3 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,495 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,800 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,839 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,957 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,473 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,268 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,514 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,464 | 12.0 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,689 | 10.5 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,194 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,141 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,703 | 3.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,991 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,307 | 3.5 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,082 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Taten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taten has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taten, and how old are they?
An estimated 582 Americans named Taten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 484 people named Taten (25 women and girls, 459 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 507 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% 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 3,780 babies since 1880, Taten is the fourth most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 39 babies (31%), the second 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 Taten
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 Taten and names like it
- Compare Taten and TaytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTaten peaked in 2007.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taten since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Taten.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taten alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.