Taya
Taya was given to 76 girls in 2025, #2,385 among girls’ names; 6,580 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,480 Americans named Taya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 11 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Taya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Taya is “a female given name.”
A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name Та́я (Tája)
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Taya?
#2,385 among girls’ names, 2025
Taya fell from #977 in 2015 to #2,385 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.16 to 0.05 per 1,000.
364 babies in 1998, the peak
Taya peaked in 1998, when 364 girls were given it, #638 among girls’ names. The 76 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #2,385 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 90 | #2,132 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 112 | #1,812 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 109 | #1,869 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 114 | #1,789 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 142 | #1,508 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 156 | #1,434 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 146 | #1,505 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 196 | #1,230 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 234 | #1,102 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 277 | #977 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,069 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,864 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 135 | #1,611 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 152 | #1,478 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 235 | #1,058 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 283 | #943 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 186 | #1,329 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 199 | #1,249 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 213 | #1,150 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 214 | #1,110 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 249 | #964 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 250 | #943 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 242 | #930 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 226 | #963 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 242 | #906 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 298 | #753 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 364 | #638 | 0.21 |
| 1997 | 239 | #857 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,953 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,616 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,741 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,569 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,820 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,922 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,213 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,917 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,214 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,411 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,715 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,406 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,721 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,422 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,577 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,192 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,592 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,651 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,733 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,058 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,993 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,040 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,386 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,626 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,585 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,941 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,300 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,943 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,976 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,939 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,930 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,428 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,071 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,509 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,828 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,492 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taya, and how old are they?
6,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,580 Americans ever recorded as Taya. The median Taya alive today is 21 years old; half are between 11 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 5,587 people named Taya (5,559 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,899 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 32 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 380 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 539 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,840 |
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 Taya born?
The states with the most babies named Taya are California, Washington and Wisconsin, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington and Wisconsin are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,739 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 6 | #1,032 | 1.6× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #917 | 1.0× |
Where Taya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Taya is most over-represented in Utah: since 1961 it was given 3.4 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 Taya 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,612 babies since 1880, Taya is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 76 of their 93 babies (82%), again the most given.
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 Taya
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 Taya and names like it
- Compare Taya and TayahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTaya peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taya since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Taya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.