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Taelyn vs Taelynn

American parents have registered 2,522 Taelyns since 1880, against 1,824 Taelynns. But in 2025 it was Taelynn that was commoner, 94 babies to 85.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taelyn against Taelynn, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taelyn Taelynn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 31 years in which either name was published, Taelyn for 25 years and Taelynn for 6 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Taelyn Taelynn
Total US births 2,5221,824
Most in one year 148124
Babies in 2025 8594
Estimated living today 2,5001,800
Median age today 118
Peak year 20102019
Best rank 1,556th girls1,687th girls
Rank in 2025 2,542nd2,117th
First recorded 19951999
Girls / boys 2,267 / 2551,808 / 16

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Taelyns alive today are over 11; half the Taelynns are over 8. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Taelyn and Taelynn.