Tayquan
Tayquan was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,604 among boys’ names; 278 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tayquan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tayquan?
#9,604 among boys’ names, 2025
Tayquan rose from #13,823 in 2015 to #9,604 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 4.7 per million.
20 babies in 2004, the peak
Tayquan peaked in 2004, when 20 boys were given it, #4,393 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,604 | 4.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,595 | 4.6 |
| 2017 | 6 | #12,066 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,823 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,584 | 3.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,626 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,207 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #14,022 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,755 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,641 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 13 | #6,568 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,470 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,168 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,393 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,203 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,474 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,388 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #5,007 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,278 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,510 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,858 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,485 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,866 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,673 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,995 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,894 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,467 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,347 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tayquan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tayquan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tayquan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tayquan, and how old are they?
An estimated 272 Americans named Tayquan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 190 people named Tayquan (2 women and girls, 188 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 258 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,799 babies since 1880, Tayquan is the second most given (15% 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 Tayquan
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 Tayquan and names like it
- Compare Tayquan and TaquanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTayquan peaked in 2004.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tayquan since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Tayquan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tayquan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.