girls:
10 births since 1999
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
77 births since 1997
#4509 (2nd percentile)
overall:
87 births since 1997
#7652 (1st percentile)
The name Tajay is the #7,652 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 87 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 1.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,509 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 77 births since 1997. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1999.
Tajay first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (1997 for boys and 1999 for girls). Birth data for Tajay is available in 12 out of the 25 years between 1997 and 2021 (11 years for boys and 2 years for girls). 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 Tajay has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2021, 100.0% of babies named Tajay were boys.
For boys, Tajay reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #786) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Tajay reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #886) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tajay".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Tajay. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.5% confident that Tajay is pronounced as tuh-JAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tah-JAY, at 39.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like T AH0 JH EY1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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