Taiya
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 9 babies a year in the US.
Taiya by the numbers
Taiya was given to 9 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 68 babies in 1998, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Taiya
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 Taiya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Tanyaworthy of praise; diminutive form of tatiana91 in the US (2017)
- Talyadew of god; variant of talia or natalia80 in the US (2017)
- Taniyaworthy of praise; a modern respelling of Tanya58 in the US (2017)
- Taliyadew of god or god has given dew13 in England and Wales (2025)
- Taimaloud thunder; native american origin5 in the US (2017)
- Taya195 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Taiya
Names that are said the same way as Taiya, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Taeya6 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Taiya
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