Tayshon — boys' name
219 babies named Tayshon in U.S. Social Security records since 1995, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
68% of everyone ever named Tayshon was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Tayshon in 2006 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tayshon
The Social Security Administration has registered 219 babies named Tayshon between 1995 and 2015, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tayshon currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tayshon performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 148 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Tayshon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tayshon in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tayshon in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 219 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Tayshon at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tayshon popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1995
- Peak year (2006)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 21 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
219 total births across 21 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2006 with 25 births in a single year.
Tayshon by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 148 births that decade — 68% of Tayshon's all-time total
Tayshon decade highlights
- Peak decade 148 births
- Runner-up 48 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Tayshon's strongest decade
148 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 68% of all-time use.
Tayshon by state
Where Tayshon concentrates geographically — total births since 1995
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | North Carolina | | 7 | 3.2% |
7 of 219 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- North Carolina 3.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
North Carolina accounts for 3.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1995–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.