Tahjai
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tahjai has been given to 98 babies in the U.S. since 1995. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1998, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% boys, 29% girls all-time.
Babies named Tahjai, 2006
1 in 495,000
Tahjai 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Tahjai over time
In 2010, Tahjai went to 100% girls and 0% 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 Tahjai?
Tahjai had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 495,000
- 8 of 3,956,166 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 257,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 342,777 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tahjai sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 342,777 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tahjai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tahjais were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tahjai was born before 2000 — so the typical Tahjai is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 61.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 70
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 61.4% of all recorded uses (43).
Is Tahjai 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1998 (11)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.7% average annual change
Spellings of Tahjai
Tahjai is not the most common spelling — Tahj is, with 43.7% against Tahjai's 0.78%.
Tahjai by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Tahjai
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tahjai
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.