Tayja
Tayja was last recorded in 2021, when 9 babies were given it; 172 Americans have been recorded with it between 1991 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tayja by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tayja?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,068, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2002, the peak
Tayja peaked in 2002, when 16 girls were given it, #7,012 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 | #11,068 | 5.5 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,323 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,491 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,435 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,548 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,286 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,794 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,173 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 16 | #7,012 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,142 | 7.2 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 11 | #9,107 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,193 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,361 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,241 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,759 | 5.7 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,221 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tayja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tayja has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tayja: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tayja, and how old are they?
An estimated 170 Americans named Tayja and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 21 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 158 people named Tayja (158 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 161 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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).
How common is the spelling Tayja?
Tayja is a less common spelling of Taija: SSA has recorded 172 Tayja and 822 Taija since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,201 babies since 1880, Tayja is the eighth most given (3.3% of them).
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 Tayja
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 Tayja and names like it
- Compare Tayja and TaijaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTayja peaked in 2002.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Tayja.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tayja alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.