Taelyn
#2,563 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Taelyn has been given to 2,522 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #2,563 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 143 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.
Babies named Taelyn, 2025
1 in 48,000
Taelyn over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Taelyn over time
In 2025, Taelyn went to 81% girls and 19% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Taelyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 48,000
- 69 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 23,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,563
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 33,304 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Taelyn sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 33,304 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taelyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Taelyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Taelyn was born before 2014 — so the typical Taelyn is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 54.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,267
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 54.9% of all recorded uses (1,245).
Is Taelyn 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
- −76
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −249
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −972
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.50×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 48.3%
- Peak was 2010 (143)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.2% average annual change
Spellings of Taelyn
Taelyn is not the most common spelling — Evelyn is, with 48.7% against Taelyn's 0.17%.
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 Taelyn is used
Across 2016–2025, Taelyn was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 25,382 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.
Taelyn around the world
Where Taelyn 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 & Wales2021–2021#5,581in 2021
- Canada2006–2022#3,322in 2022
- South Australia1998–1998#710in 1998
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Taelyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Taelyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Taelyn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Taelyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Taelyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.