Tayte
Tayte is given to both girls and boys: 10 girls and 14 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,038 among girls’ names and #6,407 among boys’, #9,338 among all names counting both); 644 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tayte by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tayte?
#6,407 among boys’ names, 2025
Tayte fell from #6,279 in 2015 to #6,407 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 7.3 to 8.2 per million.
43 babies in 2012, the peak
Tayte peaked in 2012, when 43 babies were given it (34 boys, #3,289 among boys’ names). The 24 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 56% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,038 | 14 | #6,407 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,191 | 14 | #6,427 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,079 | 15 | #6,180 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,441 | 13 | #6,776 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 7 | #10,674 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 7 | #10,473 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 8 | #9,639 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 9 | #8,741 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 13 | #6,620 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,049 | 15 | #6,021 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,852 | 14 | #6,279 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 19 | #5,038 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 22 | #4,443 | |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,116 | 34 | #3,289 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,045 | 22 | #4,489 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,790 | 14 | #6,323 |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,091 | 19 | #5,077 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,705 | 27 | #3,909 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 25 | #4,108 | |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,007 | 23 | #4,197 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,253 | 20 | #4,442 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,909 | 24 | #3,843 |
| 2003 | 12 | #9,000 | 17 | #4,783 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,088 | 14 | #5,360 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,163 | 17 | #4,652 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 21 | #3,894 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,568 | 15 | #4,724 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,943 | 10 | #6,242 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 8 | #7,199 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 10 | #5,926 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 12 | #5,075 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Tayte a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 644 Americans recorded as Tayte, 22% are girls and 78% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tayte: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tayte, and how old are they?
An estimated 636 Americans named Tayte and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 548 people named Tayte (141 women and girls, 407 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 535 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 31,527 babies since 1880, Tayte is the second most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 2,098 babies (1.1%), the third 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 Tayte
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 Tayte and names like it
- Compare Tayte and TateBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTayte peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tayte since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Tayte.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tayte alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.