Girls' name · since 1998
Tayiah
Tayiah has 39 recorded births since 1998 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2002 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #38,011 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 39
- born since 1998
- 2000s
- peak decade
39 girls have been named Tayiah since 1998, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Tayiah has 39 recorded births among girls since 1998, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1998 to 2008.
- #38,011 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 39 born since 1998
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Tayiah ranks #38,011 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 39 born since 1998, peaking in the 2000s.
- #38,011 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 39
- born since 1998
- 2000s
- peak decade
Tayiah's 39 recorded births place it above 47.4% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Tayiah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Tayiah splits its recorded history at 2001: 54% of all births land in the more recent half, 46% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1999 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2002 peak of 9 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Tayiah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1998–2008
- Peak year (2002)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Tayiah by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (26 births, 67% of the file).
2000s was Tayiah's strongest decade.
26 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 67% of all-time use.
Tayiah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
13 births
- 2000s
2000s
26 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 26 births (67% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Tayiah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~10 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1998–2008 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Tayiah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.