Tayshaun
Tayshaun was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,556 among boys’ names; 1,329 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,310 Americans named Tayshaun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 17 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tayshaun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tayshaun?
#10,556 among boys’ names, 2025
Tayshaun fell from #5,714 in 2015 to #10,556 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 4.1 per million.
186 babies in 2005, the peak
Tayshaun peaked in 2005, when 186 boys were given it, #944 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,556 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,697 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,467 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,727 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 12 | #7,040 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,986 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,774 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,740 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,486 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,307 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,714 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,992 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,950 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,228 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,590 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 57 | #2,283 | 29.7 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,072 | 33.8 |
| 2008 | 117 | #1,433 | 57.3 |
| 2007 | 112 | #1,443 | 54.0 |
| 2006 | 172 | #1,048 | 83.7 |
| 2005 | 186 | #944 | 93.1 |
| 2004 | 174 | #964 | 87.7 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,171 | 25.8 |
| 2002 | 58 | #1,935 | 29.9 |
| 2001 | 35 | #2,728 | 18.0 |
| 2000 | 32 | #2,850 | 16.3 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,459 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,511 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,197 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tayshaun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tayshaun has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 29 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tayshaun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tayshaun, and how old are they?
1,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,329 Americans ever recorded as Tayshaun. The median Tayshaun alive today is 20 years old; half are between 17 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,045 people named Tayshaun (24 women and girls, 1,021 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,257 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 179 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Tayshaun born?
The states with the most babies named Tayshaun are Michigan, Florida and Illinois, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 132 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Florida | 49 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 41 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 38 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 37 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 33 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 30 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 28 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Kentucky | 21 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Tayshaun is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tayshaun is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1997 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tayshaun with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,872 babies since 1880, Tayshaun is the most given (46% 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 Tayshaun
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 Tayshaun and names like it
- Compare Tayshaun and TashaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTayshaun peaked in 2005.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tayshaun since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Tayshaun.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tayshaun alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.