Tayana
Tayana was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,828 among girls’ names; 817 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tayana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tayana?
#10,828 among girls’ names, 2025
Tayana fell from #6,216 in 2015 to #10,828 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 5.6 per million.
41 babies in 2003, the peak
Tayana peaked in 2003, when 41 girls were given it, #3,518 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,828 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,025 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,612 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,335 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,478 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,669 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,344 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,507 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,350 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,216 | 11.8 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #9,470 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,991 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,762 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,573 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,241 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,186 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,753 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,525 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,941 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,944 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,190 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,518 | 22.4 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,426 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,549 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,394 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,792 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,129 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,356 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,621 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,654 | 17.1 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,671 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,920 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,954 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,194 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,044 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,972 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,868 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,460 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,121 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,743 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,163 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,140 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,343 | 6.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,893 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tayana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tayana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tayana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tayana, and how old are they?
An estimated 805 Americans named Tayana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 17 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 718 people named Tayana (716 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 764 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 65,937 babies since 1880, Tayana is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 281 babies (3.2%), the fifth 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 Tayana
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 Tayana and names like it
- Compare Tayana and TatianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTayana peaked in 2003.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tayana since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Tayana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tayana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.