Tayah
Tayah was given to 10 girls in 2025, #10,035 among girls’ names; 1,344 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,330 Americans named Tayah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tayah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tayah?
#10,035 among girls’ names, 2025
Tayah fell from #3,205 in 2015 to #10,035 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.1 to 6.2 per million.
103 babies in 1999, the peak
Tayah peaked in 1999, when 103 girls were given it, #1,632 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,035 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,224 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,443 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,989 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,598 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,057 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,428 | 19.1 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,595 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,568 | 18.0 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,339 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #3,205 | 29.1 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,758 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,526 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,204 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,399 | 27.3 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,118 | 30.4 |
| 2009 | 73 | #2,566 | 39.7 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,705 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,162 | 28.6 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,257 | 26.8 |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,548 | 36.8 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,391 | 39.2 |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,489 | 36.1 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,406 | 37.3 |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,594 | 32.8 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,770 | 29.2 |
| 1999 | 103 | #1,632 | 58.1 |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,718 | 52.6 |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,323 | 33.3 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,352 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tayah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tayah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tayah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tayah, and how old are they?
1,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,344 Americans ever recorded as Tayah. The median Tayah alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,139 people named Tayah (1,137 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,251 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 320 |
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).
How common is the spelling Tayah?
Tayah is a less common spelling of Taya: SSA has recorded 1,344 Tayah and 6,580 Taya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,943 babies since 1880, Tayah is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 93 babies (11%), again the second 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 Tayah
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 Tayah and names like it
- Compare Tayah and TayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTayah peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tayah since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Tayah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tayah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.