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Tashaun vs Tasneem

American parents have registered 1,683 Tasneems since 1880, against 751 Tashauns. Tasneem is still ahead, with 76 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tashaun Tasneem

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 48 years in which either name was published, Tasneem for 40 years and Tashaun for 8 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Tashaun Tasneem
Total US births 7511,683
Most in one year 5480
Babies in 2025 under 576
Estimated living today 7401,700
Median age today 2013
Peak year 20052018
Best rank 2,206th boys2,275th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,368th
First recorded 19811974
Girls / boys 36 / 7151,683 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Tashauns alive today are over 20; half the Tasneems are over 13. That is 7 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 Tashaun Tasneem
England and Wales 10937

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: Tashaun and Tasneem.