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Taylin vs Taytum

American parents have registered 4,618 Taytums since 1880, against 3,672 Taylins. Taytum is still ahead, with 445 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taylin against Taytum, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taylin Taytum

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 36 years in which either name was published, Taylin for 24 years and Taytum for 12 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Taylin Taytum
Total US births 3,6724,618
Most in one year 240476
Babies in 2025 134445
Estimated living today 3,6004,600
Median age today 125
Peak year 20112023
Best rank 1,177th girls679th girls
Rank in 2025 2,751st732nd
First recorded 19901992
Girls / boys 2,724 / 9483,997 / 621

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 Taylins alive today are over 12; half the Taytums are over 5. That is 7 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Taylin Taytum
England and Wales 43

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: Taylin and Taytum.