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Taha vs Tahj

American parents have registered 4,075 Tahjs since 1880, against 2,424 Tahas. Tahj is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taha against Tahj, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taha Tahj

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, Tahj for 32 years and Taha for 13 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Taha Tahj
Total US births 2,4244,075
Most in one year 107217
Babies in 2025 107117
Estimated living today 2,4004,000
Median age today 1414
Peak year 20141998
Best rank 1,506th boys771st boys
Rank in 2025 1,585th1,539th
First recorded 19741989
Girls / boys 0 / 2,424136 / 3,939

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.

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 Tahj
England and Wales 1,25914

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 Tahj.