girls:
2.7k births since 2002
#3326 (42nd percentile)
boys:
50 births since 2006
#4536 (1st percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 2002
#5131 (34th percentile)
The name Taraji is the #5,131 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,765 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 33.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,326 (41.8% percentile) for all time with 2,715 births since 2002. For boys, it ranks #4,536 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 50 births since 2006.
Taraji first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (2002 for girls and 2006 for boys). Birth data for Taraji is available in 20 out of the 22 years between 2002 and 2023 (20 years for girls and 6 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 Taraji has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Taraji reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 40.8% percentile (ranked #559) with 216 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 216 births per million (ranked 40.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Taraji ranks #918 for girls (3.1% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 9.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Taraji reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #871) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Taraji".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Taraji. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.5% confident that Taraji is pronounced as tuh-RAH-jee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ter-AH-jee, at 26.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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