Girls' name · since 1991
Tayja
Tayja has 172 recorded births since 1991 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2002 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #21,398 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 172
- born since 1991
- 2000s
- peak decade
Tayja is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 172 have been recorded since 1991.
Tayja has 172 recorded births among girls since 1991, 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 1991 to 2021.
- #21,398 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 172 born since 1991
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Tayja ranks #21,398 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 172 born since 1991, peaking in the 2000s.
- #21,398 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 172
- born since 1991
- 2000s
- peak decade
Tayja's 172 recorded births place it above 70.41% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Tayja's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Tayja splits its recorded history at 2003: 49% of all births land in the more recent half, 51% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1991 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2002 peak of 16 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Tayja popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1991–2021
- Peak year (2002)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 31 years of records
Tayja by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (111 births, 65% of the file).
2000s was Tayja's strongest decade.
111 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 65% of all-time use.
Tayja births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
47 births
- 2000s
2000s
111 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s 9
2020s
9 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 111 births (65% of all-time use).
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- Tayja's decade-level peak was the 2000s (111 total births); usage has since declined to 9 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Tayja: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2002)
Similar record span (~30 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, 1991–2021 (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 Tayja 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.