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Tasha vs Tashaun

American parents have registered 35,634 Tashas since 1880, against 751 Tashauns. Tasha is still ahead, with 14 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tasha against Tashaun, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tasha Tashaun

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

Tasha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1947 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Tasha had 31 and Tashaun had 29.

Side by side

  Tasha Tashaun
Total US births 35,634751
Most in one year 2,27754
Babies in 2025 14under 5
Estimated living today 34,000740
Median age today 4320
Peak year 19802005
Best rank 130th girls2,206th boys
Rank in 2025 7,491stunranked
First recorded 19471981
Girls / boys 35,528 / 10636 / 715

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 Tashas alive today are over 43; half the Tashauns are over 20. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tasha Tashaun
England and Wales 35210

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: Tasha and Tashaun.