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Taylynn vs Taytum

American parents have registered 4,618 Taytums since 1880, against 1,415 Taylynns. Taytum is still ahead, with 445 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taylynn 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 34 years in which either name was published, Taytum for 33 years and Taylynn for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Taylynn Taytum
Total US births 1,4154,618
Most in one year 91476
Babies in 2025 57445
Estimated living today 1,4004,600
Median age today 105
Peak year 20122023
Best rank 2,095th girls679th girls
Rank in 2025 2,933rd732nd
First recorded 19931992
Girls / boys 1,415 / 03,997 / 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 Taylynns alive today are over 10; half the Taytums are over 5. That is 5 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.

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