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Taze

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Taze has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1917, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Taze, 2015

1 in 617,000

Taze over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Taze: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Taze means

Taze is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Taze is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 boys were recorded with the name Taze between 1917 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1917; its best national rank was #3,921 in 1917.

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 Taze?

Taze had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 617,000
6 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 319,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
427,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taze 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 2015 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 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taze. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tazes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taze was born before 1990 — so the typical Taze is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Taze 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (6)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,921
1917

Spellings of Taze

Taze is not the most common spelling — Dale is, with 22.7% against Taze's <0.01%.

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.

Taze around the world

Where Taze 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
    2016–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Taze by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,921
1917
Peak year
1917
6 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Taze

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

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Sibling names for Taze

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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