girls:
1.9k births since 1968
#3919 (31st percentile)
boys:
28 births since 1989
#4558 (1st percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1968
#5858 (24th percentile)
The name Taja is the #5,858 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,904 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 24.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,919 (31.4% percentile) for all time with 1,876 births since 1968. For boys, it ranks #4,558 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1989.
Taja first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for girls and 1989 for boys). Birth data for Taja is available in 54 out of the 56 years between 1968 and 2023 (54 years for girls and 4 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Taja has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Taja reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 30.6% percentile (ranked #561) with 135 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 135 births per million (ranked 30.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Taja ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 3.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Taja reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Taja".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Taja. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.2% confident that Taja is pronounced as TAH-juh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAY-juh, at 10.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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