Tajay
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tajay has been given to 87 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 1997, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% boys, 11% girls all-time.
Babies named Tajay, 2021
1 in 678,000
Tajay 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Tajay over time
In 2021, Tajay 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 Tajay?
Tajay had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 678,000
- 5 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 350,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tajay sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tajay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tajays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tajay was born before 2005 — so the typical Tajay is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 55.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 77
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (43).
Is Tajay 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
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- 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 1997 (11)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.8% average annual change
Spellings of Tajay
Tajay is not the most common spelling — Jay is, with 83.9% against Tajay'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 Tajay is used
Across 1910–2025, Tajay was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New 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. Tajay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tajay around the world
Where Tajay 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 & Wales2002–2010#4,678in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Tajay by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Tajay
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tajay
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.