Taraji
#7,851 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Taraji has been given to 2,814 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #7,851 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 423 recorded.
Babies named Taraji, 2025
1 in 237,000
Taraji 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Taraji?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,851
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Taraji 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taraji. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tarajis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Taraji was born before 2012 — so the typical Taraji is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 76.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,764
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 76.7% of all recorded uses (2,119).
Is Taraji 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
- −3,568
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −5,106
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −6,740
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.06×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 3.3%
- Peak was 2010 (423)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 89.5% average annual change
Spellings of Taraji
Taraji is not the most common spelling — Tara is, with 64.9% against Taraji's 1.0%.
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 Taraji is used
Across 2016–2025, Taraji was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 30,539 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 7,143
- 2Florida1 in 9,091
- 3Louisiana1 in 9,091
- 4Georgia1 in 14,286
- 5South Carolina1 in 14,286
- 6Illinois1 in 25,000
- 7Tennessee1 in 25,000
- 8Indiana1 in 33,333
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.
Taraji around the world
Where Taraji 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 & Wales2015–2025#4,201in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Taraji by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Taraji
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Taraji
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Taraji, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Taraji
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.