Taiyo

#6,096 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Taiyo has been given to 313 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #6,096 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Taiyo, 2025

1 in 221,000

Taiyo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,096
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taiyo 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taiyo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taiyos were born

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

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
313
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.7% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Taiyo 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
+328
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,355
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+917
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.8%
Peak was 2008 (16)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,728
2008

Spellings of Taiyo

Taiyo is not the most common spelling — Jairo is, with 20.5% against Taiyo'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 Taiyo is used

Across 1910–2025, Taiyo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 446,992 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Taiyo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Taiyo around the world

Where Taiyo 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
    2007–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Taiyo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,096
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,355
Best rank ever
#5,728
2008
Peak year
2008
16 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
313
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Taiyo

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

Sibling names for Taiyo

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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