How popular is the name Taya?

Taya ranks 1,440th among girls' names in US records, with 9,716 births since 1961. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,879.

Is Taya a unisex name?

No. Taya is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1998, when 547 children were given the name. It has been in use for 64 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Taja, Tayah. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,440 of girl names

Pronounced T AA1 Y AA1 (ARPABET)

Taya is a girls' name, and first appears in 1961. It has been given to 9,716 children — the 1,440th most common girls' name on record.

It has been slipping, down 26% on the previous decade. Its best single year was 1998, when 547 children were given it.

Two other spellings are counted in that total — Taja and Tayah — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Taya and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Taya?: Taya ranks 1,440th among girls' names in US records, with 9,716 births since 1961. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,879.
Is Taya a unisex name?: No. Taya is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Taya most popular?: 1998, when 547 children were given the name. It has been in use for 64 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Taya spelled?: Taja, Tayah. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.