Tayten
Tayten was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,605 among boys’ names; 685 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tayten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tayten?
#9,605 among boys’ names, 2025
Tayten fell from #4,162 in 2015 to #9,605 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.0 to 4.7 per million.
61 babies in 2006, the peak
Tayten peaked in 2006, when 61 babies were given it (49 boys, #2,507 among boys’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 8 | #9,605 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 9 | #8,908 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 13 | #6,849 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 9 | #8,902 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 15 | #5,996 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,280 | 11 | #7,442 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 12 | #7,121 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,494 | 18 | #5,291 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,972 | 6 | #12,068 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 13 | #6,676 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 25 | #4,162 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,324 | 27 | #3,873 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 25 | #4,046 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,264 | 22 | #4,516 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,329 | 36 | #3,157 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,343 | 40 | #2,954 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,353 | 47 | #2,654 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,188 | 36 | #3,210 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,330 | 36 | #3,182 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,852 | 49 | #2,507 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,826 | 34 | #3,077 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,910 | 37 | #2,834 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 17 | #4,784 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 10 | #6,979 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 15 | #5,108 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 7 | #9,014 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 7 | #8,607 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 7 | #8,351 |
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 Tayten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 685 Americans recorded as Tayten, 14% are girls and 86% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tayten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tayten, and how old are they?
An estimated 677 Americans named Tayten and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 561 people named Tayten (98 women and girls, 463 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 614 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,183 babies since 1880, Tayten is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 39 babies (21%), 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 Tayten
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 Tayten and names like it
- Compare Tayten and TaytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTayten peaked in 2006.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tayten since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Tayten.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tayten alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.