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Tailynn vs Tait

American parents have registered 1,223 Taits since 1880, against 941 Tailynns. But in 2025 it was Tailynn that was commoner, 34 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tailynn against Tait, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tailynn Tait

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 59 years in which either name was published, Tait for 44 years and Tailynn for 15 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tailynn Tait
Total US births 9411,223
Most in one year 6844
Babies in 2025 34under 5
Estimated living today 9301,200
Median age today 1127
Peak year 20132007
Best rank 2,597th girls2,721st boys
Rank in 2025 4,172ndunranked
First recorded 19941967
Girls / boys 941 / 016 / 1,207

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 Taits alive today are over 27; half the Tailynns are over 11. That is 16 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.

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