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Taten vs Tatiyana

American parents have registered 2,145 Tatiyanas since 1880, against 590 Tatens. But in 2025 it was Taten that was commoner, 12 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taten against Tatiyana, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taten Tatiyana

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 39 years in which either name was published, Tatiyana for 27 years and Taten for 12 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Taten Tatiyana
Total US births 5902,145
Most in one year 36173
Babies in 2025 12under 5
Estimated living today 5802,100
Median age today 1623
Peak year 20071999
Best rank 3,135th boys1,133rd girls
Rank in 2025 6,803rdunranked
First recorded 19891987
Girls / boys 0 / 5902,145 / 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 Tatiyanas alive today are over 23; half the Tatens are over 16. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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