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Taelynn vs Taeya

American parents have registered 1,824 Taelynns since 1880, against 368 Taeyas. Taelynn is still ahead, with 94 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taelynn Taeya

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 29 years in which either name was published, Taelynn for 22 years and Taeya for 7 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Taelynn Taeya
Total US births 1,824368
Most in one year 12433
Babies in 2025 94under 5
Estimated living today 1,800360
Median age today 820
Peak year 20191999
Best rank 1,687th girls3,639th girls
Rank in 2025 2,117thunranked
First recorded 19991997
Girls / boys 1,808 / 16368 / 0

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 Taeyas alive today are over 20; half the Taelynns are over 8. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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