Taye — boys' name

What the Data Says About Taye

The Social Security Administration has registered 571 babies named Taye between 1998 and 2023, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Taye currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 53 babies received it in a single year. Taye is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 48 additional births since 1998.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Taye performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 370 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Taye shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 22 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Taye in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Taye in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 571 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.