Taia
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 3 babies a year in England and Wales.
Taia by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Taia. In the US, 9 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 59 babies in 1998, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Taia
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Taia. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Taliagod's dew; form of Thalia or Natalia260 in England and Wales (2025)
- Tarastar or carrying90 in England and Wales (2025)
- Taniafairy queen; a form of Tatiana186 in the US (2017)
- Tiaaunt; a spanish term of endearment65 in England and Wales (2025)
- Talastar43 in England and Wales (2025)
- Tasiaresurrection; a form of Anastasia25 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Taia
Names that are said the same way as Taia, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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