Taitum
#6,520 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Taitum has been given to 597 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #6,520 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 28 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 82% girls, 18% boys all-time.
Babies named Taitum, 2025
1 in 184,000
Taitum 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Taitum over time
In 2025, Taitum went to 69% girls and 31% 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 Taitum?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 184,000
- 18 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 89,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,520
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 127,662 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Taitum 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taitum. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Taitums were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Taitum was born before 2011 — so the typical Taitum is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 39.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 487
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (192).
Is Taitum 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
- +1,856
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,471
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +429
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 64.3%
- Peak was 2011 (28)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.0% average annual change
Spellings of Taitum
Taitum is not the most common spelling — Tatum is, with 78.6% against Taitum's 1.3%.
Where Taitum is used
Across 1910–2025, Taitum was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Taitum has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Taitum around the world
Where Taitum 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.
- South Australia2004–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Taitum by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Taitum
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Taitum
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.