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Tahj vs Tahlia

American parents have registered 4,075 Tahjs since 1880, against 3,504 Tahlias. But in 2025 it was Tahlia that was commoner, 121 babies to 117.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tahj Tahlia

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 50 years in which either name was published, Tahlia for 27 years and Tahj for 23 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Tahj Tahlia
Total US births 4,0753,504
Most in one year 217167
Babies in 2025 117121
Estimated living today 4,0003,500
Median age today 1413
Peak year 19982009
Best rank 771st boys1,408th girls
Rank in 2025 1,539th1,692nd
First recorded 19891976
Girls / boys 136 / 3,9393,504 / 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.

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 Tahj Tahlia
England and Wales 141,346

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: Tahj and Tahlia.