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
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.
- 1976–1996 Tahlia ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1997–2004 Tahj ahead
- 2005–2009 Tahlia ahead
- 2010–2024 Tahj ahead, apart from one short spell
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 | 4,075 | 3,504 |
| Most in one year | 217 | 167 |
| Babies in 2025 | 117 | 121 |
| Estimated living today | 4,000 | 3,500 |
| Median age today | 14 | 13 |
| Peak year | 1998 | 2009 |
| Best rank | 771st boys | 1,408th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,539th | 1,692nd |
| First recorded | 1989 | 1976 |
| Girls / boys | 136 / 3,939 | 3,504 / 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
- Tahj Louisiana (8.9×), Florida (3.7×), Georgia (3.4×)
- Tahlia Florida (4.7×), Washington (2.4×), California (2.3×)
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 | 14 | 1,346 |
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.