Tashan
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tashan has been given to 133 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1990, with 28 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% boys, 8% girls all-time.
Babies named Tashan, 2011
1 in 610,000
Tashan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Tashan over time
In 2011, Tashan 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 Tashan?
Tashan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 610,000
- 6 of 3,657,935 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 317,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 422,582 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tashan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tashan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tashans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tashan was born before 1991 — so the typical Tashan is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 68.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 123
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 68.3% of all recorded uses (84).
Is Tashan 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 1990 (28)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 66.4% average annual change
Spellings of Tashan
Tashan is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 81.0% against Tashan's 0.02%.
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 Tashan is used
Across 1910–2025, Tashan was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,285,783 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 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. Tashan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tashan around the world
Where Tashan 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 & Wales1996–2012#3,987in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Tashan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Tashan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tashan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.