Taiwan
#11,825 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Taiwan has been given to 913 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #11,825 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1976, with 51 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% boys, 8% girls all-time.
Babies named Taiwan, 2025
1 in 553,000
Taiwan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Taiwan over time
In 2025, Taiwan went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Taiwan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,825
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Taiwan 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taiwan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Taiwans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Taiwan was born before 1990 — so the typical Taiwan is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 31.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 28.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 842
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (263).
Is Taiwan 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
- +1,981
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +82
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 11.8%
- Peak was 1976 (51)
- Years since peak
- 49
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.7% average annual change
Spellings of Taiwan
Taiwan is not the most common spelling — Aidan is, with 79.4% against Taiwan's 0.56%.
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 Taiwan is used
Across 1910–2025, Taiwan was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 592,305 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in —
- 2Indiana1 in —
- 3New Jersey1 in —
- 4New 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. Taiwan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Taiwan around the world
Where Taiwan 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.
- France2002–2015#6,156in 2015
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Taiwan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Taiwan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Taiwan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.