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Tadhg

#3,741 in 2025Boys' name

Poet

Tadhg has been given to 613 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #3,741 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Tadhg, 2025

1 in 111,000

Tadhg over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tadhg: meaning, origin, and history

Poet

Old Irish

What Tadhg means

Tadhg means “poet”, associated with tadg.

Origin, language, and formation

Tadhg is used in Irish. Its origins include Old Irish.

Tadhg comes through Middle Irish Tadg and Proto-Celtic *taskos.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Taðkr.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Irish, Tadhg is pronounced /t̪ˠai(ə)ɡ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 613 boys were recorded with the name Tadhg between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2023; its best national rank was #2,798 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,257 in 2020 to #3,741 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,480 in 2015 to #3,741 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Tadhg?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,741
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tadhg sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tadhg. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tadhgs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tadhg was born before 2016 — so the typical Tadhg is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
613
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (233).

Is Tadhg rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−645
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−484
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,739
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.76×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.2%
Peak was 2023 (46)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,798
2023

Spellings of Tadhg

Tadhg is not the most common spelling — Tad is, with 30.1% against Tadhg's 2.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tadhg is used

Across 1910–2025, Tadhg was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 538,467 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tadhg has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tadhg around the world

Where Tadhg ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #412
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2025
    #441
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2001–2025
    #85
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1965–2025
    #8
    in 2025
  • France
    2021–2021
    #5,853
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–2012
    #316
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Tadhg by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,741
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 484
Best rank ever
#2,798
2023
Peak year
2023
46 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
613
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Tadhg

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Tadhg

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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