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Taha vs Tahiry

American parents have registered 2,424 Tahas since 1880, against 614 Tahirys. Taha is still ahead, with 107 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taha Tahiry

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 45 years in which either name was published, Taha for 43 years and Tahiry for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Taha Tahiry
Total US births 2,424614
Most in one year 107140
Babies in 2025 10713
Estimated living today 2,400610
Median age today 1410
Peak year 20142014
Best rank 1,506th boys1,552nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,585th7,885th
First recorded 19741995
Girls / boys 0 / 2,424614 / 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 Tahas alive today are over 14; half the Tahirys are over 10. That is 4 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Taha Tahiry
France 1,735145
England and Wales 1,2593

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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