girls:
6 births since 2022
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
330 births since 1997
#4256 (7th percentile)
overall:
336 births since 1997
#7403 (4th percentile)
The name Taiga is the #7,403 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 336 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 4.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,256 (7.1% percentile) for all time with 330 births since 1997. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2022.
Taiga first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (1997 for boys and 2022 for girls).
The name Taiga has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Taiga reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #859) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Taiga ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 38.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Taiga reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #957) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Taiga".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Taiga is pronounced as TAI-guh, which has 2 syllables.
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