Tayshawn
Tayshawn was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,099 among boys’ names; 1,325 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,310 Americans named Tayshawn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tayshawn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tayshawn?
#6,099 among boys’ names, 2025
Tayshawn fell from #3,763 in 2015 to #6,099 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 8.8 per million.
128 babies in 2006, the peak
Tayshawn peaked in 2006, when 128 boys were given it, #1,300 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,099 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,863 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,866 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,436 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 12 | #7,041 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,946 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,367 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,659 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,443 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 15 | #6,020 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,763 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,359 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,328 | 17.4 |
| 2012 | 36 | #3,162 | 19.0 |
| 2011 | 56 | #2,313 | 29.5 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,257 | 30.2 |
| 2009 | 92 | #1,705 | 46.4 |
| 2008 | 104 | #1,552 | 51.0 |
| 2007 | 123 | #1,364 | 59.3 |
| 2006 | 128 | #1,300 | 62.3 |
| 2005 | 112 | #1,352 | 56.1 |
| 2004 | 92 | #1,481 | 46.3 |
| 2003 | 50 | #2,200 | 25.3 |
| 2002 | 47 | #2,242 | 24.2 |
| 2001 | 43 | #2,337 | 22.1 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,908 | 15.8 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,815 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,839 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 17 | #4,028 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,925 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #10,160 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,681 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,312 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,310 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,467 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tayshawn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tayshawn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tayshawn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tayshawn, and how old are they?
1,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,325 Americans ever recorded as Tayshawn. The median Tayshawn alive today is 19 years old; half are between 15 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,000 people named Tayshawn (21 women and girls, 979 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,223 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 47 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 251 |
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 Tayshawn born?
The states with the most babies named Tayshawn are Michigan, Ohio and Florida, with 50% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 120 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Ohio | 46 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 38 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 32 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 23 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 19 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 12 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Tayshawn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tayshawn is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1991 it was given 2.9 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 Tayshawn 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,574 babies since 1880, Tayshawn is the second most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 26 babies (58%), the most given that year.
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 Tayshawn
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 Tayshawn and names like it
- Compare Tayshawn and TashawnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTayshawn peaked in 2006.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tayshawn since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Tayshawn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tayshawn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.