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Tatiyana vs Tatsuko

American parents have registered 2,145 Tatiyanas since 1880, against 39 Tatsukos. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tatiyana Tatsuko

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 38 years in which either name was published, Tatiyana for 33 years and Tatsuko for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tatiyana Tatsuko
Total US births 2,14539
Most in one year 17314
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,1001
Median age today 2397
Peak year 19991916
Best rank 1,133rd girls2,246th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19871916
Girls / boys 2,145 / 039 / 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 Tatsukos alive today are over 97; half the Tatiyanas are over 23. That is 74 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: Tatiyana and Tatsuko.