Tayten — #8626 US boys' name
582 babies named Tayten in U.S. Social Security records since 1998, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 39% of names given to boys today.
49% of everyone ever named Tayten was born in this single decade.
49 babies were named Tayten in 2006 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tayten
The Social Security Administration has registered 582 babies named Tayten between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tayten currently holds the #8626 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 49 babies received it in a single year. Tayten is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 94 additional births since 2004.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tayten performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 288 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Tayten shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Iowa, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Tayten in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tayten 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 582 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.
Tayten at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
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Tayten popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1998
- Peak year (2006)
- 49
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
Currently ranks #8626 among boys.
582 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2006 with 49 births in a single year.
Tayten popularity over time — girls
94 total births recorded since 2004 (Tayten as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Tayten accounts for 14% of total recorded use across both genders.
Tayten by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 288 births that decade — 49% of Tayten's all-time total
Tayten decade highlights
- Peak decade 288 births
- Runner-up 223 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Tayten's strongest decade
288 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 49% of all-time use.
Tayten by state
Where Tayten concentrates geographically — total births since 1998
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Iowa | | 11 | 1.9% |
| #2 | Texas | | 6 | 1.0% |
| #3 | Kentucky | | 5 | 0.9% |
| #4 | Minnesota | | 5 | 0.9% |
11 of 582 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Iowa 1.9% of nationwide
- Texas 1.0% of nationwide
- Kentucky 0.9% of nationwide
- Minnesota 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Iowa accounts for 1.9% 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, 1998–2024 (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.