Taunya
Taunya was last recorded in 1992, when 9 babies were given it; 1,484 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Taunya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 51 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taunya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taunya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,420, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
103 babies in 1971, the peak
Taunya peaked in 1971, when 103 girls were given it, #1,139 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 9 | #9,420 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,595 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,691 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,698 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #6,007 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,862 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,794 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,639 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,060 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,590 | 22.3 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 38 | #2,468 | 23.7 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,426 | 24.2 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,658 | 20.9 |
| 1976 | 67 | #1,532 | 45.7 |
| 1975 | 77 | #1,379 | 52.8 |
| 1974 | 91 | #1,217 | 62.0 |
| 1973 | 85 | #1,237 | 58.3 |
| 1972 | 96 | #1,143 | 63.1 |
| 1971 | 103 | #1,139 | 61.9 |
| 1970 | 78 | #1,352 | 44.6 |
| 1969 | 72 | #1,352 | 42.7 |
| 1968 | 56 | #1,538 | 34.1 |
| 1967 | 75 | #1,237 | 45.4 |
| 1966 | 56 | #1,487 | 33.1 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,712 | 24.9 |
| 1964 | 48 | #1,685 | 25.3 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,689 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,305 | 14.2 |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,065 | 16.3 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,504 | 11.9 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,091 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,739 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,813 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,314 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,830 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,690 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,912 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,530 | 5.9 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,239 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,196 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,606 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,369 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taunya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taunya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taunya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taunya, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,484 Americans ever recorded as Taunya. The median Taunya alive today is 55 years old; half are between 51 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 1,283 people named Taunya (1,283 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,386 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 256 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 967 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 124 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 170,198 babies since 1880, Taunya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 192 babies recorded by SSA was a Taunya (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Taunya
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 Taunya and names like it
- Compare Taunya and TanyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTaunya peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taunya since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Taunya.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Taunya alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.