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Taja vs Tajh

American parents have registered 1,916 Tajas since 1880, against 753 Tajhs. But in 2025 it was Tajh that was commoner, 12 babies to 6.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taja against Tajh, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taja Tajh

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 58 years in which either name was published, Taja for 43 years and Tajh for 15 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Taja Tajh
Total US births 1,916753
Most in one year 25979
Babies in 2025 612
Estimated living today 1,900740
Median age today 3025
Peak year 19881990
Best rank 720th girls1,238th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208th6,803rd
First recorded 19681989
Girls / boys 1,888 / 280 / 753

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 Tajas alive today are over 30; half the Tajhs are over 25. That is 5 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: Taja and Tajh.