Tais
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tais has been given to 409 babies in the U.S. since 1991. 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 2001, with 95 recorded.
Babies named Tais, 2015
1 in 529,000
Tais 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Tais?
Tais had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 529,000
- 7 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 255,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 366,535 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tais sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 366,535 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tais. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Taiss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tais was born before 2001 — so the typical Tais is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 78.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 409
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 78.7% of all recorded uses (322).
Is Tais 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 2001 (95)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 58.0% average annual change
Spellings of Tais
Tais is not the most common spelling — Lois is, with 22.8% against Tais's 0.03%.
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 Tais is used
Across 1910–2025, Tais was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 328,320 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3New Jersey1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Texas1 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. Tais has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tais around the world
Where Tais 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 & Wales2010–2016#5,785in 2016
- France1995–2025#2,048in 2025
- South Australia2004–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Tais by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tais
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tais
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.