girls:
1.3k births since 1996
#4407 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1996
#6426 (17th percentile)
The name Tayah is the #6,426 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,317 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 16.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,407 (22.9% percentile) for all time with 1,317 births since 1996.
Tayah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (first recorded for girls in 1996).
For girls, Tayah reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 11.1% percentile (ranked #788) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 53 births per million (ranked 11.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tayah ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 14.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tayah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Tayah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 20 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Taya" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Taya..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tayah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.8% confident that Tayah is pronounced as TAY-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAI-uh, at 16.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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