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Taia

#13,047 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Tamar

Taia has been given to 592 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #13,047 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 59 recorded.

Babies named Taia, 2025

1 in 474,000

Taia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Taia: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Tamar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Taia means

Taia is a diminutive of Tamar.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Taia is used in Georgian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Taia → Tamar. The family’s meaning is “date palm, date”, recorded in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tamar.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 592 girls were recorded with the name Taia between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 59 in 1998; its best national rank was #2,389 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #17,256 in 2020 to #13,047 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,423 in 2015 to #13,047 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Taia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,047
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taia was born before 2001 — so the typical Taia is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
592
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.6% of all recorded uses (211).

Is Taia 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
+4,365
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,209
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,624
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.9%
Peak was 1998 (59)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,389
1998

Spellings of Taia

Taia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 11.3% against Taia's 0.01%.

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 Taia is used

Across 1910–2025, Taia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 890,420 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

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. Taia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Taia around the world

Where Taia 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2012–2025
    #6,181
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2011
    #2,554
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1959–2007
    #418
    in 2007

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

Taia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,047
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,209
Best rank ever
#2,389
1998
Peak year
1998
59 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
592
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Taia

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

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Sibling names for Taia

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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