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Taji

#8,168 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Crown

Taji has been given to 645 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #8,168 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 21 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% boys, 20% girls all-time.

Babies named Taji, 2025

1 in 332,000

Taji over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Taji over time

In 2025, Taji went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19692025

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.

Taji: meaning, origin, and history

Crown

Arabic

What Taji means

Taji means “crown”, associated with taji.

Origin, language, and formation

Taji is used in Swahili. Its origins include Arabic.

Taji comes through Arabic تَاج.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 514 boys were recorded with the name Taji between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1977; its best national rank was #2,261 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,942 in 2020 to #8,168 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,628 in 2015 to #8,168 in 2025.

In the United States, 131 girls were recorded with the name Taji between 1969 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1993; its best national rank was #5,481 in 1971.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Taji?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,168
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taji 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taji. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tajis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taji was born before 2001 — so the typical Taji is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
23.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
514
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Taji 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
+1,586
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,226
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,540
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.6%
Peak was 1977 (21)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,261
1977

Spellings of Taji

Taji is not the most common spelling — Kai is, with 24.7% against Taji's 0.18%.

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 Taji is used

Across 1910–2025, Taji was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 821,259 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Taji has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Taji by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,168
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,226
Best rank ever
#2,261
1977
Peak year
1977
21 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
514
Count in 2025
10

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,481
1971
Peak year
1993
11 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
131
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Taji

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

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Sibling names for Taji

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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