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Taisha vs Taiwan

American parents have registered 2,838 Taishas since 1880, against 913 Taiwans. Taisha is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taisha Taiwan

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 60 years in which either name was published, Taisha for 57 years and Taiwan for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Taisha Taiwan
Total US births 2,838913
Most in one year 12361
Babies in 2025 136
Estimated living today 2,800870
Median age today 3837
Peak year 19841976
Best rank 1,120th girls1,210th boys
Rank in 2025 7,885th10,695th
First recorded 19661969
Girls / boys 2,838 / 071 / 842

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 Taisha Taiwan
France 45 Taïsha10

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: Taisha and Taiwan.