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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Tai” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tai” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Tai” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Tai” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Tai” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Tai” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Tai” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tai” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1969 13 0.000003741 6 7 -8%
1970 15 0.000004159 5 10 -33%
1971 21 0.000006118 8 13 -24%
1972 12 0.000003818 12 -100%
1973 19 0.000006298 7 12 -26%
1974 24 0.000007895 9 15 -25%
1975 30 0.000009936 14 16 -7%
1976 70 0.00002307 34 36 -3%
1977 52 0.00001637 21 31 -19%
1978 50 0.000015754 29 21 16%
1979 83 0.000024947 47 36 13%
1980 199 0.000057773 159 40 60%
1981 161 0.00004654 126 35 57%
1982 125 0.000035633 88 37 41%
1983 116 0.000033494 79 37 36%
1984 97 0.000027804 59 38 22%
1985 64 0.000017932 38 26 19%
1986 84 0.000023615 42 42 0%
1987 55 0.000015254 23 32 -16%
1988 65 0.000017591 25 40 -23%
1989 56 0.000014566 27 29 -4%
1990 74 0.000018722 38 36 3%
1991 94 0.000024132 55 39 17%
1992 81 0.000021087 39 42 -4%
1993 76 0.000020158 32 44 -16%
1994 85 0.000022864 32 53 -25%
1995 67 0.000018295 23 44 -31%
1996 77 0.000021112 30 47 -22%
1997 92 0.000025374 42 50 -9%
1998 109 0.000029634 44 65 -19%
1999 136 0.000036818 40 96 -41%
2000 133 0.000035186 32 101 -52%
2001 137 0.000036598 42 95 -39%
2002 136 0.00003638 48 88 -29%
2003 167 0.000043921 36 131 -57%
2004 174 0.000045539 41 133 -53%
2005 143 0.000037193 36 107 -50%
2006 152 0.000038421 31 121 -59%
2007 139 0.00003477 36 103 -48%
2008 111 0.000028239 27 84 -51%
2009 112 0.000029318 22 90 -61%
2010 85 0.000022999 14 71 -67%
2011 113 0.000030893 24 89 -58%
2012 87 0.000023788 15 72 -66%
2013 81 0.000022218 10 71 -75%
2014 85 0.000022933 15 70 -65%
2015 74 0.000019995 16 58 -57%
2016 76 0.000020716 16 60 -58%
2017 70 0.000019574 17 53 -51%
2018 59 0.000016781 10 49 -66%
2019 60 0.000017286 14 46 -53%
2020 74 0.000022152 15 59 -59%
2021 70 0.000020661 10 60 -71%
2022 71 0.000020986 16 55 -55%
2023 65 0.00001963 16 49 -51%
2024 70 0.00002103 12 58 -66%

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  5. Tahyssia
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  9. Taiana
  10. Taianna
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