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Taiga

#6,405 in 2025Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Taiga has been given to 366 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #6,405 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Taiga, 2025

1 in 237,000

Taiga over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Taiga: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Taiga means

Taiga is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include big, great, elegant, refined.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 355 boys were recorded with the name Taiga between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2010; its best national rank was #3,977 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,982 in 2020 to #6,405 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,030 in 2015 to #6,405 in 2025.

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Taiga between 2022 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2022; its best national rank was #15,112 in 2022.

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.

How common is Taiga?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,405
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taiga 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taiga. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taigas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taiga was born before 2012 — so the typical Taiga is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
355
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (132).

Is Taiga 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
+1,290
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,577
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,375
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.8%
Peak was 2010 (26)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,977
2010

Spellings of Taiga

Taiga is not the most common spelling — Gaige is, with 22.1% against Taiga's 1.8%.

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 Taiga is used

Across 1910–2025, Taiga was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 549,224 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New 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. Taiga has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Taiga around the world

Where Taiga 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
    2000–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    2021–2021
    #6,041
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1997–2005
    #427
    in 2005

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.

Taiga by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,405
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,577
Best rank ever
#3,977
2010
Peak year
2010
26 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
355
Count in 2025
14

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,112
2022
Peak year
2022
6 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Taiga

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

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Sibling names for Taiga

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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